From new rooms to smart classrooms: JNU's management, engineering await big upgrades
Jawaharlal Nehru University
's
engineering and management schools
will soon have their own
academic buildings and hostels
, reported TOI.
As part of a ₹483.66 crore
infrastructure overhaul
under the
Higher Education Funding Agency
(HEFA) scheme, the university will construct a
modern academic block
and two purpose-built hostels for the School of Engineering and the Atal Bihari Vajpayee School of Management and Entrepreneurship.
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According to the report, the upcoming ₹142-crore academic centre will span 29,000 square metres and include
advanced lecture halls
, simulation labs, interdisciplinary collaboration zones, faculty offices, and subject-specific laboratories.
The design aims to support both cutting-edge research and applied learning in technology and business studies.
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These facilities are meant to match the academic demands of programmes that, unlike most JNU courses, charge significantly higher tuition fees. General category students pay ₹12 lakh for the full MBA, while OBC (non-creamy layer) students pay ₹8 lakh and SC/ST/PWD students pay ₹6 lakh—raising long-standing concerns about the mismatch between cost and infrastructure.
New hostels with upgraded amenities
Students will also get brand new hostels—JNU's first ever built specifically for a single academic programme. Together, they'll accommodate 2,600 students, helping end years of dependency on shared, cross-disciplinary housing.
The School of Engineering hostel will cover 34,500 square metres and house 1,950 students at a cost of ₹126.69 crore. It will include furnished rooms, reading lounges, green spaces, and a dining hall, noted the news oulet.
The management school hostel, sized at 11,500 square metres and costing ₹42.23 crore, will provide space for 650 students in modular rooms with shared workspaces suited for postgraduate life.
Part of a larger push to modernise JNU
These upgrades are part of a broader development vision. Under the HEFA scheme, JNU has received clearance for nine major infrastructure projects.
TOI further reported these include a trans-disciplinary research and academic block (₹41.24 crore), an advanced animal research centre (₹22.92 crore), a cutting-edge instrumentation facility (₹27.05 crore), a start-up incubation hub (₹17.69 crore), and a 2,000-seat lecture hall complex (₹52.85 crore).
'These projects mark a major milestone for JNU,' said vice-chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit. 'They reflect our commitment to creating a globally competitive, research-oriented university. As we align with the
National Education Policy 2020
, we're building a future-ready campus for both students and faculty.'
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