VNIT Nagpur Campus Facilities: Hostel Fees, Infrastructure, Address

VNIT Nagpur campus is near Ambazari Lake and is in close proximity to the railway station and the airport. The campus organizes a number of annual fests or activities wherein participants from different colleges take part. The library at VNIT is 4 decades old and has an independent three-storied building with a vast collection of books and journals. The library and information resources centre at the VNIT campus is automated, and the institute has very good residential facilities to cater to the needs of over a thousand students. VNIT campus has seven boys’ and four girls’ hostels.

Each hostel is well-equipped with a telephone, sports items, water cooler, water heater, and well-equipped mess facilities. All the hostels at the VNIT campus have an independent mess where vegetarian and non-vegetarian meals are provided. At the VNIT campus, there is the provision of sports facilities and the institute organizes various tournaments so that students get some exposure. There are cricket tournaments, specialized coaching facilities as well which are offered to the students.

The VNIT campus has all necessary facilities to take care of all students’ requirements and offers a vibrant and good environment which helps students learn and at the same time, enjoy while learning by taking part in the various extracurricular and sports activities apart from focusing on the academics. Also at the VNIT campus, there is an entrepreneurship E-Cell which takes care of mentoring the new startups. It has worked with more than 5,000 startups since its inception having an impact on over 10,000 students and would-be entrepreneurs. It has a range of learning-oriented programs which play an important role in the development of entrepreneurial skills and give an opportunity to the deserving candidates.

V.N.I.T. has excellent residential facilities to cater the need of more than a thousand students. There are seven Boys Hostels and two Girls Hostels. Each hostel is having a telephone, T.V., Sports Items, water coolers, water heaters and well equipped mess facilities. It is mandatory for hostel inmates to join the mess in his / her hostel, managed by committee of students' representatives. All hostels are having independent mess where vegetarian and non-vegetarian meals are available. All residents have to bear the wages of the mess cooks, servants, helpers and cleaners. Ministerial staff is provided by the Institute.

The Chief Warden looks after the management of the hostels along with a team of seven wardens and Hostel Manager.

Entrepreneurship is the process of starting a business, typically a startup company offering an innovative product, process or service. Anentrepreneur perceives an opportunity and often exhibits biases in taking the decision to exploit the opportunity.

E-Cell VNIT is a non-profit organization run by the students of VNIT, Nagpur that aims at manifesting the entrepreneurial spirit of young students, and is one of the largest and most active entrepreneurship clubs of India. It was founded by some enthusiastic students of the 2004-2008 batch. The club has produced the then youngest CEO of India, Mr. Ashwin Baliwada (who is also one of the founding members of the Club).

Having round the year events such as STARTUP WEEKEND powered by GOOGLE for Entrepreneurs, TATA FIRST DOT workshop, JUGAAD, E-Cell aims at an all round development of all its members such that they are fully prepared for all their future endeavors. It also supports and incubates many startups.

The club provides a platform to students who want to setup their own business and opportunities to budding entrepreneurs to connect to successful businessmen and see their ideas turn into reality.

It encourages the students to develop entrepreneurial skills. The management events shall include conversion of research projects to commercial products, public speaking, crisis handling, mock sensex, ad-making, virtual company creation,providing economic solutions to technical and social problems conference and panel discussions, industry-student interface via projects and internships.

Every year, Entrepreneurship Cell of VNIT organises Consortium, the Annual Entrepreneurship Summit. It is a confluence of activities, events, competitions, conferences and workshops conducted to inculcate a startup-minded outlook among technical students. It is one of the biggest summits of its kind. It aims at fostering the importance of leadership and decision making, encouraging entrepreneurship and introducing young technocrats to various management concepts practiced in the corporate world and to provide a platform for development of managerial acumen, entrepreneurial spirit and to bring ideas into reality.

Consortium is one of the very few conventions in India to be organized by engineering undergraduates.Consortium attracts thousands of participants in various contests. Events include corporate contests, traditional business contests, crowd magnet events, a business plan competition and many online events. These are judged by academicians and industrialists.

It has various popular events in it such as Ascent(B-Plan), Swades, Bizmantra, EPL manager, Kaizen etc with participation from enthusiastic students all over the nation.