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Social
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University of Delhi has a large campus community.There has always been a felt
need here for certain utilities as well as space for social interaction. |  | | |
Since 2000, the Campus has seen the establishment of a number of such facilities.
The first development in this direction after the turn of the Millennium is the
return of the Coffee House as an annex to the Old Viceregal Lodge. The Coffee
House had been an intellectual hub of the University of Delhi, and its return
signifies, in more senses than one, the re-assertion of the intellectual tradition
of the University. A Utilities Centre has been constructed near the main administration
building of the University. It houses two banks, ATMs, railway reservation counters,
a post office and a Delhi Transport Corporation Ticketing Centre. It also has
a Kendriya Bhandar departmental store. This Utilities Centre meets several needs
that the campus community has felt for a long time. A University Centre was established
in 2004 in the Arts Faculty Complex adjacent to the Central Reference Library,
overlooking the new University Plaza. Its establishment is in response to the
need the University community has always felt for a space where they can congregate
for events, cultural and intellectual. | | | It
has a food court, where Spic Macay has started a holistic health café.
It has an amphitheatre, which can seat about 100, set in |  |
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a beautiful green environment. The amphitheatre provides a
congenial space for theatre workshops, book-reading sessions and small music concerts.
It has a few multi-purpose rooms, which are used for lectures, seminars and film-shows.
It has also a reading room. A collective of independent publishers has opened
a bookstore called the `U-Special' in the University Centre. It also has a souvenir
shop, `People Tree'. The most important component of the University Centre, however,
is the Centre for Self Expression and Creative Growth, founded in the belief that
it is crucial for us to engage with crises in individuals' lives and in social
processes. Youth as a stage in the human life cycle is especially prone to such
upheavals. Young people walk into this Centre to engage with cultural and therapeutic
experiences that enable emotional expressions of a wide range and develop experientially
into a process of creative growth. During the last five years, the facilities
at the WUS Health Centre have been upgraded. An X-ray machine and an automatic
analyzer in the pathology laboratory have been installed. Part-time specialists
have been engaged as consultants. Arrangements have been made for providing services
in the indigenous systems of medicine. To promote sports activities, the University
of Delhi has developed a national level facility at the polo ground of the University. |
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