Most hostels prohibit them from using heating appliances
Most hostels prohibit them from using heating appliances
Students staying in hostels of some of the NCR's major universities will shiver more this winter. For they have been barred from using heating appliances like heaters and blowers in their rooms. 
As the students are returning to their universities after winter break, the hostel wardens have started checking their luggage for such prohibited appliances. Sources say that the university authorities are taking such steps to cut down on soaring electricity bills due to the large scale use of such appliances by the students.
One such surprise check was witnessed at the Amity University's H-6 hostel on Tuesday during which electrical appliances like room heaters, blowers and kettles were seized and students fined for using the same.
Such appliances are prohibited in JNU too and even here students are fined if found using them. There were also reports that JNU might charge students for electricity consumption and for that the authorities had started installing electricity meters.
Clarifying that no decision has been taken by the university regarding charging students for electricity consumption in the hostels, the University authorities maintained that the installation of electricity meters in Koyna hostel was nothing new as two other hostels, Married Research Students Hostel and Yamuna hostel also have the meters. "The electricity meters are being installed to record the consumption. But yes electricity bill does go up when students use such electric appliances," said senior official of JNU.
Students meanwhile are finding innovative ways to beat this ban. "It is obvious that when you return from home, you bring along such electric appliances. So before coming to hostel, we leave them with our day scholar friends. For some days we have to bear the chill but later no one checks," said a MA final year student of JNU who is staying at Jhelum hostel.u00a0
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| It was a bone-chilling morning for Delhiites yesterday as the mercury plummeted to the season's lowest of 3.7 degree Celsius. The maximum temperature settled at 14.7 degree Celsius, six degrees below normal and the same as recorded yesterday. "The minimum was recorded at 3.7 degree Celsius, which is the lowest this season. The temperature was three degrees below normal," a Met Department official said. |
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