Hostel 3

Dear H3-alumni,

A quick update on what the Hostel has been up to. Last year, H3 won the cultural GC after a gap of more than 5 years!! The Hostel is doing well in most areas and the legacy of H-3 is ever growing.  There has been many infrastructal changes in the Hostel recently like we got a pool table, a new music room has been set up. However, there is much more needed for infrastructure in the hostel now also.

These areas where your help needed  : (1) Infrastructure Improvements: Infrastructure makeovers such as gymkhana, garden area and the sports fields, (2) Mess Worker Incentive Fund: An assistance scheme for the mess workers who have so faithfully served all of us over the years, and (3) Sponsor Your Room: A scheme to establish direct contact between the current residents of the hostel and the alumni via room-specific improvement projects.

Hostel 3 Council has carefully vetted the infrastructure improvement projects and arranged them in the order of priority to have the maximum impact on the hostel's ambiance and environment. Better yet, the team has already received estimates from the contractors to get the projects going as soon as the funds can be raised. 

The scheme to provide assistance to the mess workers turned out to be more tricky. A monthly pension scheme would have been unwieldy to manage, plus would result in an open-ended liability that may not be practical to fulfill. We also had to work with the office of the Dean of Resource Management and the IIT-B Alumni Association office to make sure that the money is managed carefully and that the project would not set any undesirable precedence, e.g., unrest among other hostels' mess workers. We are pleased to report that we are past all those hurdles and ready to launch the project. For estimated a corpus of Rs 7 lakhs for the mess workers.

The "Sponsor Your Room" scheme will have a pretty unique and exciting structure : the current student in a room will propose decorative and improvement items for his own room to the alumni who agrees to sponsor that room. The improvements will be approved by the hall manager and the council, and funds donated by the alum will go directly towards those improvements.

The IIT-B Alumni office is also helping out by making their database of H3 alumni available for this project. We have about 1400 names in the registry, and about 1100 of those have email addresses or phone numbers in the database. We need to reach each and every one of these 1100 people in the next few weeks.

The most effective way to reach people to raise this money is going to be to reach them personally. We would like to create a network and need some volunteers to call  other fellow alumni from their own batch, encourage them to donate generously and record their pledges with the Hostel 3. If you would like to join this effort, please contact Shubham Gupta immediately at shubham.gupta@iitb.ac.in .

We are confident that you will join in to make the whole project a reality and help H-3 rise to new heights. Please join the effort. Please click on the links above for Infrastructure Improvements, How to Help,  to Donate, Mess Workers Incentive Fund, Sponsor Your Room and Album.

Regards,
Hostel 3 Family !

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