Eco-sensitive professors who were worried about where to stay while on a visit to Delhi University, need not look further than the immediate vicinity of its North Campus as the university has only just inaugurated a new guest house made entirely out of bamboo.

Bamboo is not ideal resource for construction as it's generally hollow. Even though, there is a special bamboo naming biologically as Dendro Calamus and which is which is partly solid and this is flattened, processed and ultimately used as a building material. In fact says University Guest House chairperson Usha Rao that they have used this type of wood in the guest house, adding that the university’s Botany department always had a special relationship with bamboo through successful experiments with tissue culture back in the 1980s and 1990s.

To say more, the guest house rooms are massive and have facilities of hosting up to four persons per room, with hotel-like conveniences like a minibar, tea-kettles, television, desks and wardrobes and it seems a lunch at the main guest house can cost around Rs.125. Moreover, Tariffs at the bamboo guest house are slightly higher than the main one. A basic room here can cost about Rs.1,100 as compared to the approximate Rs.700 being charged for a room at the main guest house.

(AW:Samrat Biswas)