IIEST, Shibpur, has issued a hostel-wise exit plan that its graduating students have to follow to take away their belongings from the campus.

The institute has asked its outgoing students, who had left their hostels in the third week of March following the outbreak of Covid-19, to clear their belongings by August 31.

“The exit plan, which has been uploaded on the institute’s website, specifies when students from each state will arrive on the campus to collect their items,” said an official of the institute.

At the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), half the students are from outside Bengal.

The plan has been prepared after students shared information, on a Google form created by the university, on which states they are from, whether their homes are in containment zones and how they will travel to the campus.

Sudipta Mukhopadhyay, chief warden, IIEST, said in a notice that the students had been asked to complete the process of removing their belongings in an hour. The reporting time at the hostel is 10am to 4pm.

“The student can accompany one of his/her parents to facilitate the process. An intimation through e-mail by the concerned student must reach the respective warden with a copy to the chief warden at least 24 hours before his/her arrival,” says the notice signed by Mukhopadhyay.

The exit plan has the names of graduating students from each state and the respective dates that have been finalised for collecting the belongings.

Until the belongings are removed, the rooms cannot be sanitised, said an official of the building.

In the next phase, the institute will ask the students in the third year and second year to take away their belongings.

First-year students have yet to move in as the JEE-Main exams, through which the institute admits students, have not yet been held because of the pandemic.