Does IIEST Shibpur provide single occupancy hostel rooms for a BTech first year student?

No, first-year B.Tech students do not get a single occupancy hostel room. In fact, no government-funded Institute of National Importance will provide you a single occupancy room or AC room at least in the first year.

• The institute has 4 hostels, 3 boys and 1 girl, for first-year students where no senior is allowed to enter.
• All rooms in the boys hostels have to be shared by 4 students while in the girls’ hostel there are two types of rooms; one with 3 students and the other with 4 students sharing.
• The rooms are allotted on a random basis with an emphasis on giving students from the same department to share the rooms.

The rooms are very clean and if you keep them that way, then you won’t have any problem. The rooms are spacious enough as well. In the first and second year sharing rooms will eventually make your group studies more fun. In the third and fourth year, only you will get single occupancy rooms.