As of now there are 50+ franchisee hostels and YHAI regularly monitors all its hostels to establish if they are still viable and if necessary closes those that are no longer viable or have no prospects of becoming viable again in the future. YHAI announced the largest plan of network renewal. In 2010 a hostels renovation was done to bring the standards on par with international standards for the commonwealth games.Ģ010 saw a change in the charitable objective of the association.
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Direct management of the hostels was removed from the regional committees and a professional management structure was put in place.Īs well as upgrading facilities in existing hostels, other experimental approaches to attracting young travelers were made. Significant modernization of hostels had occurred during the 2000s but by the late 2000s it became clear to YHAI that it needed to change as the stresses and strains of running what was a large organisation began to show on what was almost entirely a volunteer-run body. The use of dormitory accommodation and common rooms in every hostel reinforced this. The emphasis was very much on a8 communal atmosphere within each hostel.
The sheet sleeping bag was used from the outset and supplemented by pillows and blankets. These ranged from washing up, to cleaning the hostel. Membership was required to stay at a hostel and all people staying at a hostel were required to assist in the running of the hostel by undertaking what were known as 'duties'. A National Office to co-ordinate policy and standards. The hostel was run by a manager known as a warden and all the hostels in an area were administered by a number of National Councils. Self-catering facilities were provided at all hostels and many hostels provided a meals service. All hostels provided accommodation in single sex dormitories. The first hostel to open was at Chanakya Puri in New Delhi in December 1977. “Our Mission is to enable and promote travel, tourism, adventure spirit, national integration and Education & health by providing hostels of good standards to millions of youth of limited means during their travel at affordable rates on a sustainable basis and by organizing adventure and educational events and to develop understanding among youth about social & developmental issues.” Some State Branches and Units are in the process of procuring land for construction of Youth Hostels.Įver since its inception it has been known as YHA using the abbreviation YHAI when necessary to distinguish it from other associations.Īs its charitable objective YHAI stated it as Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam, Orissa was the next one built by YHAI in 1961. An international camp of volunteers helped to construct its foundation. The Plan for constructing youth hostels by YHAI was taken up and the first Youth Hostel built with its own resources on a donated piece of land was a small 35-bed youth hostel at Jagjit Nagar near Kasauli. The Training Centre has since been approved by IYHF for training of international participants. Later a Training Centre equipped with audiovisual aids and Recreation Centre with indoor games and library facilities were added. As a result, a 120-bed Youth Hostel complex in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi with Administrative Offices came into existence.
On 5 October 1970, National Youth Hostel Trust was created through a Resolution passed by the National Council of YHAI, a day earlier. The first National Conference of the Youth Hostels Association of India (YHAI) was held in 1956 in Delhi which marked the establishment of the movement on a national level. Three years later the Indian Association received Associate membership of IYHF.
In 1949, some enthusiasts in Mysore set up a Committee for promotion of the Movement. The idea was introduced in early forties by the Boy Scouts and Girls Guides of India, Punjab Circle and the first Youth Hostel was formally opened at Tara Devi near Shimla on 9 June 1945 by H E Sir Bertrand Glancy, Chief Scout and Governor of the Punjab. The Youth Hostel Movement had found its way into India before the partition of the country in 1947. The whole concept of youth hostels was started in Germany in 1909 by Richard Schirrmann and it took 40 years for the ideas to reach fruition in the India.
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