11. ACCOMMODATION


Official guests are generally housed in Big Bungalow, which is also a venue for official entertaining. Other visitors, including volunteers, are housed in a variety of accommodation as assigned by the Deputy Director for International relations.

Each unit has its own inventory of furnishings. Please do not move furniture from one unit to another or change your residence without discussing it with the receptionist on site. Please report any loss or damage to furnishings or linen to your receptionist as early as possible.

If you plan to be away from Vellore for a few days, please inform the Deputy Director for International Relations. If you will be away for two weeks or more, you are requested to vacate your room as that it can be used for short-term visitors. Allowing a friend to occupy your room at any time is not permitted. If you have overnight visitors during your time at CMC, please make arrangements for their housing through the Deputy Director for International Relations. Please be sensitive to the privacy of other members of the opposite sex. Men are not allowed in women’s rooms, and visa versa.

If you are to live on the College campus, your accommodation will be in Big Bungalow, Big Bungalow Annex, Johnson House, Sunset Avenue, the Modale International Students Hostel, the CHTC Guest House or the Alumni Guest House. If assistance or repairs are needed, contact your receptionist.

The sitting room at Johnson House, next door to Big Bungalow Annex, provides an informal gathering place for volunteers; the kitchen is also available for use but no assistance will be available to clean up the kitchen.

Please note that alcoholic beverages are not permitted in any of the Institution’s guest houses.

Consideration for the comfort of your neighbors will be appreciated when you play music or entertain friends.

Whatever your housing situation, you will be able to add personal touches with photographs of friends and family, so long as nails are not put into the walls, or woodwork. A shopping spree in Gandhi Road, and the Long Bazaar can help you buy most basic necessities at very reasonable prices, and walking among bicycles, rickshaws, and bullock carts will be an adventure as well. There are gift shops on the Hospital campus where you can purchase handmade items produced in local cottage industries and other self-help programs.

The village shops and the College store have food, stationery and toiletries as well as film, batteries, and padlocks. At Hospital, you will find the Evangelical Literature Society (ELS) also stocks greetings cards, stationery, audio and video cassettes. In the town Harish Food Zone and the Nilgiris Store are small superstores, which have a fairly wide range of food and general items, both local and foreign.

MODALE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS HOSTEL

This new facility was made possible by the generous donation of an alumnus and his family, and was commissioned in February 2007. It is located at the Medical College Campus. There are 10 same gender Non AC share rooms and one AC faculty room. Each room has an attached bathroom with western closet and hot water facility.

Bed linen, towels and toilet paper is provided and linen will be changed twice a week. Common washing and ironing facilities are available on site. A small kitchenette for minor cooking is provided with a microwave and fridge. Internet and TV facilities are being planned. Charges are Rs.250/- per person/per day. The College Canteen is just a stones throw away. Bookings are currently made via the Dy. Director dir.evo@cmcvellore.ac.in


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