A view of SVIMS Super Specialty Hospital in Tirupati. File photo | Photo Credit: KV Purnachandra Kumar
The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) has resolved to address on priority the shortage of boys’ hostel facilities at its Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS) Super Specialty Hospital in Tirupati.
As an immediate follow-up, it has decided to construct an additional floor with 28 rooms above the existing hostel building at a cost of ₹3.55 crore to accommodate about 100 students.
TTD established Multi Super Specialty Hospital in 1993 which was later declared as State University offering Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Diploma and Doctorate programs in various disciplines. Presently it has a total strength of around 2,200 students out of which 789 are male and the remaining 1411 are female students.
While girl students are accommodated in hostels at various places, including some TTD quarters, boys are left with only a two-storey hostel building consisting of 43 rooms with common toilets. Even though, the total holding capacity was kept at around 130 students, the shortage of accommodation forced the management to board four to five students in each room, as against the normal capacity of three, leaving the rest to opt for private accommodation. Forced to
With more and more requests for enhancement of hostel facilities coming from the student fraternity, TTD arrived at a decision to construct an additional floor as a relief measure and also accorded administrative approval for allocation of the budget from its own funds. Did.