Overview
- A ceiling fan fell from the ceiling in a Tapti Hostel room on Tuesday night but no one was inside when it happened, prompting students to raise alarms about campus safety.
- The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union has formally demanded a structural audit of all hostels and campus buildings and called for separate safety checks of laboratories.
- Students and residents described leaking ceilings, crumbling plaster, heavily rusted emergency exits with missing steps, broken or missing window panes, and persistent hygiene problems in hostels.
- JNUSU said a former associate dean had told a meeting that Tapti and Mahi Mandavi hostels were declared unfit for accommodation yet rooms continued to be allotted there, and the administration has not issued an immediate public response.
- The union cited the Sept. 6 Satya Niketan PG building collapse in Delhi as a warning and said the fan incident could spur formal inspections, repairs, or further student protests if the university does not act.