Overview
- A ceiling fan collapsed inside a room in Tapti Hostel late on Tuesday night, and no student was in the room when it fell.
- The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union has demanded a structural audit of all hostels and buildings and urged media to document campus conditions.
- Students cite a meeting in which a former associate dean reportedly said Tapti and Mahi Mandavi hostels were declared unfit, yet rooms continued to be allotted there.
- Residents describe widespread wear and hygiene problems across Tapti and other blocks, including leaking ceilings, crumbling plaster, rusted emergency exits, broken or missing window panes, and non‑working washroom flushes.
- The union has linked the incident to the Sept. 6 Satya Niketan collapse and warned that continued inaction could cause serious harm, while the JNU administration had not issued an immediate response or announced inspections.