Introduction

This division is a part of the University of Peradeniya. It provides a comprehensive service to all students of the University by administering and allocation of 23 hostels in the University, with the aim of helping to support the student experience by providing efficient and effective accommodation services and facilities.

Providing residential facilities for Undergraduate Students, recovering hostel fees & fines for damages from accommodated students through the full time subwardens of the halls of residence and supplying furnitures & other facilities for halls as according to the requests given by the sub wardens of the respective halls of residence are the main functions of this division.

Our objective is to support students in the following ways :

• Provide accurate information and advice regarding the accommodation application/allocation process.
• Recognize applicants as individuals with their own requirements at all times. (Ex. Disability students)
• Allocate students into halls with the aim of providing balanced effective communities.
• Provide hostel facilities for low income family members where appropriate.
• Efficiently and effectively respond to student issues and concerns.
• Liaise/mediate/co-ordinate with other University departments to provide optimum support to residents.
• Seek the students’ opinion, analyze trends and recommend developments to the facilities and services provided to students.
• Supervising and conducting the standards of food hygiene and sanitary services of halls of residence.

Our Student Accommodation Policy :

University hostel facilities are provided on the basis of distance from the residence of the Students. Accordingly.

For 1 st year students
- over 50km
For 2 nd year students according to the
- over 40km
(Depend on vacancies exist in halls during the academic year)
For 3 rd year students
- over 30km
For 4 th year students
- over 20km
For 5 th year students
- over 10km

And
Also, we provide residential facilities for Captains and Vice Captains of Sports Teams.


• Differently able students.
• Students on medical grounds recommended by the University Chief Medical Officer.
• Students who are facing dare financial difficulties, On the recommendations of the GS and AGA , and on the approval of Vice- Chancellor/Deputy Vice-Chancellor or Director/Accommodation.

The University of Peradeniya has a key plan to provide residential facilities to all its undergraduate students.But unfortunately, it is limited up to 75% of the student population.There are twenty three halls of residence in the University. And every hall consist with a Part time Academic Warden,Senior Academic Sub Warden, Academic Sub Wardens andFull time Sub Warden to support day-to-day duties in the halls of residence.

Achievements

• fully furnished the Mahakanda & Athulathmudali Halls and assigned the students for accommodation.
• 8712 students were accommodated for the year 2020.
• Renovation works of Jayathilake Hall and two wings of Wijewardene Halls were completed recently.

Failure and Justification

• Insufficiency of hostel facilities to facilitate all the students who applied beyond the Accommodation Policy..
• Still we could not complete the furniture requirments of the Sarasavi Medura new hostel and now it‘s been supplying.

Future Plans

• We are looking forward to obtain another new hostel which can be accommodated 800 female students.