Jamia Millia Islamia asks hostellers to vacate rooms and return home

Jamia Millia Islamia on Friday directed hostellers to vacate ir rooms and return home, after Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) allowed use of trains for ferrying people stranded due to nationwide lockdown to ir respective states. university was shut owing to coronavirus pandemic and would reopen in August for regular students, while new acemic session would commence from September.

examination schedules slated for July 2020 will be notified in due course, university said. resource materials for exams and research are accessible online, it said.

" students stranded in hostels who could not go back to ir homes earlier and stayed back are hereby directed to vacate hostels as per arrangements of transportation and travel protocols of state governments," it said.

areas in proximity of university have been declared hotspots and sealed and university said that it will become difficult to maintain logistics and manpower requirements in future. hostels are needed for maintenance and for contingent quarantine facilities, university ded.

"refore, hostels are to be vacated completely with no exceptions. provosts (boys and girls Hostels) are requested to initiate process urgently," it said.