Hostel

Infrastructure | Daily routine in the Hostel | Code of Conduct and Regulations | To The Kind attention Of Parents | Service Activities

Infrastructure
Sleeping Quarters
Dormitory accommodation is available for the students in the hostel. Normally about 15 students will be accommodated in each dormitory. All the rooms are provided with racks where the students can keep their belongings. The hostel buildings are always kept neat and tidy.

Auditorium
The auditorium is a magnificent building with an imposing tower. This is the main prayer hall and prayers are held twice a day. Bhagawan Sathya Sai Baba has sanctified this hall by His Divine visits and Divine discourses.

Dining Hall
Sai Anna Poorna dining hall has all the modern facilities. Bhagawan graciously inaugurated this dining hall on May 16th, 1998. It can accommodate around 500 people at a time. Bhagawan Sathya Sai Baba has admired the aesthetic beauty and architecture of the building.

Hospital
The Boggaram hospital in the campus provides free treatment to the students and staff of the institution and also to the poor villagers nearby. A dental check-up facility is available once in a week and experienced doctors visit the hospital round the week.

General Stores and Canteen
A General store in the campus provides all the stationery requirements of the students. A well-maintained canteen caters to the needs of parents, guests and visitors.

Use of Solar Power
To provide bathing facilities to students, teachers and workers, solar heaters are installed in the campus.

Sathya Sai Sudha Dairy
A dairy consisting of 60 cows is run in order to supply milk to the institution, that caters to around 70% of the requirement of the hostel.

Others Facilities
Photocopy Machine
Photocopy machines are installed in the campus for the benefit of students and staff.

Dhobi
Students can avail of the facility of getting their cloths washed and pressed by Dhobi who come to the campus twice in a week.

Phone
Students are allowed to contact their parents and relatives over phone through the coin booths and STD booths in the campus.

Post office
There is a full fledged post office in the campus premises.

Bank facility
For the convenience of the students and staff there is a branch of Vijaya Bank, a nationalized bank, adjacent to the campus.

Daily routine in the Hostel

Getting up	5:00 a.m.
Morning Prayer	5:25 to 5:45 a.m.
Physical jerks	5:45 to 6:10 a.m.
Studies	6:20 to 8:00 a.m.
Bath and breakfast (in batches)	7:30 to 8:30 a.m.
Room and personal cleaning	8:30 to 9:00 a.m.
Lunch (in batches)	12:15 to 1:45 a.m.
Evening snacks	4:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Games	5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Evening prayer	6:15 to 6:45 p.m.
Studies	7:00 to 9:30 p.m.
Supper (in batches)	7:30 to 8:45 p.m.
Night prayer and rest	9:45 p.m.

Code of Conduct and Regulations
Discipline is of paramount importance in the campus. Students who enter the campus shall always remember, The end of education is character and conduct themselves in a manner befitting this ideal. The admission of the students to the hostel will be renewed every year on the basis of their behavior.

All the students shall wake up at 5:00AM and they must participate in group prayers and other activities of the day whole-heartedly and punctually. The boys shall go to bed immediately after the night prayer at 9:45 PM.

Students are expected to keep their dwelling rooms, classrooms and campus premises absolutely clean and tidy. Students should not indulge in loud talk and idle chat. Absolute silence will have to be maintained in gatherings like prayer sessions, functions and study classes.
Harmony, mutual courtesy, gentlemanly behavior, decent and unostentatious dress habits are to be cultivated; sporting long nail and distortions of hairstyle are strictly forbidden.
Students and others are prohibited from bringing here any literature, newspapers, magazines or any other things considered to be harmful or unnecessary by the authorities. Transistors, walkman, camera, tape-recorders, iron-boxes, mobile, I-pods (Mp3 players) etc, are not permitted.
Smoking, drinking, eating non-vegetarian food including eggs are totally prohibited; purposeless wandering, abstaining from regular routine, whistling, singing film songs are strictly prohibited. If any student is found to be given to such wrong ways he will be dismissed from the hostel.
Students should not cause any damage to the furniture and equipment of the institution; in case of their causing any damage they have to pay the fine levied by the authorities.
Humility is the firm foundation of a strong character. Students should cultivate love and reverence to all the elders and teachers.
The hostel cannot be held responsible if the student leaves the campus without the permission of the authorities. Such students will not be admitted to the hostel again.
Students should not drive cars, two wheelers etc, in the campus.

To The Kind attention Of Parents

It has come to our notice that some people pretend to close to the hostel authorities, approach the parents with the intention of cheating them and extract money from them with the assurance that they will get a seat for their wards in the hostel. Parents are requested not to be taken in by such false promises.
Parents should co-operate in maintaining good and cordial relations between the students and the members of the staff. Parents should not do or talk anything that may damage the respect of the students towards the institution and the staff.
After the admission of the students in June, parents are not expected to come over to the campus till 15th July
Parents should not request for permission to meet the students on working days. They can meet them only on certain Sundays during fixed timings.
Parents shall not enter the rooms of their children when they go over to see them. Instead, they shall meet their boys in the office at fixed timings with the permission of the warden.
Parents are advised not to bring any eatables, non-vegetarian food, and soft drinks for their boys; only fruits and biscuits can be brought.
Parents shall not request for permission to take the boys outside the campus.
Permission to go home: Students residing in the hostel will be allowed to go home only during the mid-term and summer vacations. Students will not be allowed to go home for pooja, birthday celebration, pilgrimage etc., But in exceptionally unavoidable circumstances, leave will be sanctioned to the students for one or two days only, if the authorities are convinced of such a necessity. In such cases, parents have to write a letter to the warden requesting for leave explaining the reasons. Request through phones will not be entertained.
There is no provision for parents or guardians to stay in the campus during nights.
Smoking in the campus is strictly prohibited.

Service Activities
Students are encouraged to participate in various service activities, which include:

Monthly de-vermination and health awareness camps in the surrounding eight villages.
Narayana Seva program held once in a year in eight villages during annual meet of Children of Sathya Sai.
Monthly Medical Camps held in the campus on the 4th Sunday of the month to assist the doctors and help the patients.
Poornima (Full moon day) bhajans conducted in the nearby villages.
Students undertake sanitation work in the eight adopted villages in batches on rotational basis under supervision of teachers.