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Helpline · 1800-XXX-XXXX

Government of Maharashtra · CET

Run your hostel without the registers.
queues.
paper slips.
phone calls.

Rooms, fees, food, safety and complaints — the things every hostel deals with every day. We put all of them on one screen, so students stop standing in queues and wardens stop chasing paper.

Free for CET-affiliated hostels · Set up in a day · Nothing to install

Room allocationOnline feesDigital mess & food votingAnti-ragging reportingComplaints & noticesAttendanceGate pass & leaveGuest rooms

Why it helps

Hostel work is not hard. It is just repeated four hundred times.

One admission form — times four hundred students. One fee receipt — times twelve months. That is where the whole year goes. Here is what changes from day one.

How it works today

  • Students queue for a form, then queue again to submit it
  • Room lists live in a register, so nobody really knows which beds are free
  • Fees are paid at a counter, and the receipt is a slip that gets lost
  • The mess cooks for 400 when 250 turn up — the rest goes in the bin
  • Ragging goes unreported, because reporting means being seen doing it

How it works here

  • The form fills itself from MahaCET. The student taps apply, once.
  • Every bed shows as free or taken, live, on one screen
  • Fees are paid by UPI from bed, and the receipt is saved forever
  • Students vote for lunch by 10am, so the kitchen cooks the right amount
  • Ragging is reported from a phone, at any hour, without walking anywhere

The student journey

Sign up on Monday. Sleeping in your room by Friday.

Six steps, all from a phone. No office visit needed at any point.

STEP 01

Sign up

One login with your MahaCET details. No new form to fill.

STEP 02

Find a hostel

Filter by distance from college, budget, boys or girls, food type.

STEP 03

Apply

The form is already filled. Check it, attach documents, submit.

STEP 04

Get your room

Warden allots a bed. Your allotment letter arrives the same minute.

STEP 05

Pay online

UPI or card, from anywhere. Receipt on screen instantly.

STEP 06

Move in & live

Menu, meal votes, complaints, leave and attendance — all in the app.

Total office visits required: zero. Total forms printed: zero.

01 · ROOM ALLOCATION

From application to room key, without one piece of paper.

A student applies from their phone. The warden sees the request, checks the live bed chart, and allots a room in two taps. The allotment letter reaches the student instantly. Nobody walks to the office. Nobody opens a register.

  • Application form auto-fills from MahaCET details
  • Live bed chart — you always know what is free
  • Room shifts and vacating handled in the same place
  • Digital allotment letter, downloadable any time
Advantage: admission week goes from three days of queues to one afternoon
Block A · Bed chartLive
Room 101 · 3 seater1 bed free
Room 102 · 3 seaterFull
Room 103 · 2 seater2 beds free
New allotment · 103-BLetter sent

02 · PAYMENTS

Pay the hostel fee the same way you pay for chai.

No demand draft. No trip to the bank. No counter that shuts at 4pm. Students see exactly what is due, pay by UPI or card, and get the receipt on screen before they lock their phone. The office sees the money land in real time.

  • UPI, cards and net banking — part payments where allowed
  • Receipt issued instantly and stored in the student's account
  • Reminders before the due date, so nobody pays a late fine
  • Full payment history — every year, in one list
Advantage: collection day stops being a day. It becomes a number on a dashboard.
Your feesAll clear
Hostel fee · Term 2Paid
Mess advance · this monthDue in 4 days
Security depositPaid
Receipt · instant downloadPDF

03 · DIGITAL MESS

The kitchen finally knows how many people are eating.

Students check the menu in the morning and tap yes or no for lunch. By 10am the cook has a real headcount instead of a guess. Less food is made, less food is thrown, and the mess bill stops paying for meals nobody ate.

  • This week's menu, on every student's phone
  • Vote for today's lunch — the popular dish wins
  • Skip a meal in one tap when you're going home
  • Rate the food, so the mess committee has facts, not rumours
Advantage: cook for the count, not for the register — and throw away far less food
Today's lunchVoting closes 10:00
Veg biryani + raita212
Dal khichdi + papad74
Not eating today38 students
Cook for286 plates · 38 saved

04 · COMMUNICATION

One place to ask, one place to answer.

A broken fan, a leave request, a fee query, a notice about Sunday's water supply — all of it goes through the portal instead of five WhatsApp groups. Every message has a name against it and a status, so nothing quietly disappears.

  • Raise a complaint and watch it move to closed
  • Notices reach every student at once, with read counts
  • Ask a question and get an answer on record
  • Leave and gate-pass approvals in a single tap
Advantage: complaints actually get closed, because someone is always accountable
Your requests2 open
Fan not working · 204Closed · 1 day
Hot water · B wingIn progress
Leave · weekend at homeApproved
Notice · water supply, SundayNew

05 · ANTI-RAGGING & SAFETY

Reporting ragging should not require courage in a corridor.

The hardest part of reporting ragging has never been the form. It is being seen walking to the warden's office. Here a student reports from their bed, at midnight, and it lands directly with the anti-ragging committee — timestamped, recorded, and impossible to quietly misplace.

  • Report from a phone, any hour — no walking to an office
  • Goes straight to the anti-ragging committee, not through seniors
  • Every report is timestamped and tracked to a closure
  • Helpline numbers and the undertaking live in the same place
Advantage: a first-year who would never have walked to the office can still speak up
Anti-raggingConfidential
Report an incident · from your phoneOpen form
Reported · 11:48 pmWith committee
Action taken · closedResolved
Helpline & undertakingOpen

And the rest of it

Every other small job the hostel does, also handled.

Each one saves a walk to the office, a phone call, or a page in a register.

Attendance

Daily hostel attendance marked digitally, visible to the warden and to the student.

You know who is in the building tonight — without a night round with a register

Room shift

Want to change rooms or move in with a friend? Request it, get it approved, done.

No informal swaps that leave the register wrong for the rest of the year

Home & leave requests

Going home for the weekend? Raise the request, the warden approves it on their phone.

Parents and wardens both have a record of who left and when

Guest rooms

Book a guest room for visiting parents, with its own receipt, in a couple of minutes.

Parents arrive to a confirmed room, not to a maybe

Notices

Water supply, exam schedules, mess timings — posted once, delivered to everyone.

“Nobody told me” stops being a valid excuse — you can see who read it

Ask a question

Any doubt about fees, documents or rules — ask it and get a written answer.

The same question gets answered once, not forty times at the counter

Shortlist & compare

Bookmark hostels while you decide, and compare fees and facilities side by side.

Families choose on facts instead of on whoever they happened to call first

Photos & facilities

Real photos of the rooms, mess and grounds, plus the full facility list for each hostel.

Nobody travels 300km to see a hostel that looks nothing like the description

Hostel onboarding

Owners apply online, get verified by CET, and their listing goes live.

Only verified hostels reach students, so the list stays trustworthy

What it actually saves

Small things, multiplied by four hundred students.

0Paper forms to print, sign, file or find again next year
0 tapsTo allot a room, once the application is in front of you
0/7Pay a fee, report a problem or apply — at any hour
~0%Less lunch cooked for students who were never going to eat it*

*Depends on how many students vote. The more that vote, the closer the count.

Who it's for

Three people, one portal, three different reliefs.

For students

Everything about your stay in one app — and no reason to visit the office.

  • Apply and get your room
  • Pay fees, keep every receipt
  • Vote for lunch, skip meals
  • Report ragging, safely

For wardens

The register, the fee book and the complaint diary — replaced by one dashboard.

  • See every free bed at a glance
  • Know who has paid, instantly
  • Approve leave from your phone
  • Close complaints on record

For CET & institutes

Real numbers from every hostel, without asking anyone to send a spreadsheet.

  • Occupancy across all hostels
  • Collections and dues, live
  • Anti-ragging reports on record
  • Verified listings only

Everything included

You don't have to pick a plan. You get all of it.

No modules to buy later. No per-feature pricing. No “that's in the premium version.” One account for the student, one dashboard for the hostel, and every feature switched on from day one.

  • Room allocation & shifts
  • Online fees & receipts
  • Mess menu & food voting
  • Anti-ragging reporting
  • Complaints & notices
  • Attendance
  • Leave & gate pass
  • Guest room booking
  • Photos & facility lists
  • Shortlist & compare
  • Warden & admin dashboards
  • Hostel onboarding & verification

Your hostel can run this way from next week.

Students sign up in a minute. Hostels are set up in a day. Nothing to install, nothing to buy.