A feeling of the youth hostel life years. A dream for many, but a set of Indian School of Mines (ISM) Alumnus, he literally.

The ISM Alumni Association of Mumbai has therefore set for building a society housing password-outs, buildings named after the Inns of the leading institutes of engineering Dhanbad.

Sunil K. Jha, a graduate of petroleum engineering in 1964 and the current vice-president of the Association, launched the idea of returning in 1980 to give ISM graduate work in Mumbai housing in a city with prohibitive costs of goods .

“Living in Mumbai is very expensive and my plan was a plot by the Government of Maharashtra allotted for the old, most of them were employees of the public sector, in which they can build houses on our own,” he said.

About 20 alumni have been roped in the project, but many fall if the government refuses ground. However, Jha received a land of private partners and the first apartment complex - “ISM”, has come into the Village Thakur Kandivali East. “The funding was the first obstacle, but as a complex has been, many candidates for membership,” said Jha.

Until 2006, three other complex came into the area called “mineral”, “techno-parks I and II” and “Hill Park”, to break the ISM, a territory of the commune. “The venture has been successful in establishing a system to support the development of camaraderie, Alumnus. We are also working as an advisory committee for our alma mater, “said Saurav Kumar, secretary of the presence and oil, a graduate of 1991.

The association has built five homes was named after ISM hostels preservation of remembrance College days.

“ISM”, the first building of 70 housing, was created by the extraction of ore Engineers’ Cooperative Housing Society. It has two blocks or two wings named ore, diamonds and rubies, similar to hostels ISM. Ruby is for girls.

Minerals house was a geo-scientific cooperative. It has 42 apartments and two wings, Pearl Pearl A and B, an aberration, given that the ISM has no youth hostel with the same name.