From a Girls hostel to Boys hostel to a PG hostel, the U Block has seen it all. The story of this abode is as long as Maharashtra house. Initially a girls hostel, this building has witnessed many afmcites come and go.The name U-Block comes from the first batch to rush into the building when the females left.

Latika Mohan (V) was one of the last inhabitants of the girls hostel and wrote to us;

" V were the last lot of freshers to be ragged in U Block. Living in U-block was a special experience with its subterranean mess and proximity to the boy's hostel. Nothing could beat sitting on the "balcony" and biting into a forbidden bun-keema from the 'redi 'just before the gates closed at ten. Lunchtime was made more bearable after a glass of nimboo-pani from the bai who sat under the tree outsite the hostel.

As freshers we were consigned to the triple seaters which were dark and dingy and on the main road - but - the cat calls and beer bottles that came in flying in from across the fence more than compensated for the discomfort.

Moving to the new GH was definately more comfortable but my best memories of college still lie in the old hostel. "

As a boys hostel the U Block blossomed. It could be referred to as " a vale with fields full of grass and sweet rivers !" It acquired a reputation of being our own Bermuda Triangle and the launching pad. The quadrange in the center, apart from serving as a badminton court for many a heated match, also witnessed sessions of mass orientation with the screaming spectators shouting for more from the galleries. The basement was converted into a gymnasium ( probably some stud hoped that the girls would return to their esrtwhile mess !).

With the advent of the new hostel, U-Block was gradually abandoned and later converted to the PG Hostel. Presently the U-block is a Post Graduate hostel for Advanced Course Trainees in their first AFMC phase. Many an afmcite has in fact returned to his old room in college !!