O/o Dean, Students' Welfare

Fellowships & Scholarships

Announcements, Applications, and Downloads

Sports Facilities

Infrastructure, Facilities, and Staff Information

📋 Introduction

The Office of the Dean, Students' Welfare (DSW), primarily looks after the welfare of students, with active support from elected student representatives, faculty, and other administrative functionaries. The multiple tasks of DSW include: facilitating the conduct of student union elections, thereby encouraging collaboration, cooperation, democracy, and tolerance among students and enabling participation in multiple progressive activities; organizing necessary support for students requiring medical aid, coordinating with the CMO; facilitating interactions between different student groups and promoting understanding and mutual respect; encouraging participation in extracurricular activities; suggesting to the Vice Chancellor matters that enable appropriate support system for students and recommending to the Vice Chancellor on the expenditure of the student aid fund, emergency medical aid, and the students' union fund; facilitating students' insurance and facilitating the smooth functioning of the provision of fellowships and scholarships to students.

Three Deputy Deans, Students' Welfare, work with the DSW to coordinate the office's activities.

🎓 Fresher's Meet and Orientation/Induction

The office of the DSW organizes orientation to newly admitted students through an Induction programme to the entire set of freshers, soon after the admissions for the academic year. In the orientation, the freshers are addressed by the Deans/Heads of different Schools/Departments/Centres, and statutory officers. Those invited include the Chief Medical Officer, Librarian, Chairperson, ICC (erstwhile GS-CASH), Chairperson, Proctorial Board, Chief Warden, Health Insurance Officials, Students' Counselors and are informed of the central facilities in the university, besides the facilities in the respective Schools/Departments/Centres. The Vice-Chancellor delivers the address on this occasion as the Chief Guest.

🏥 Medical Insurance

The office of the DSW coordinates medical insurance claim settlements for all the registered students from the day they are admitted to the day they leave the university. A group medical insurance scheme that is economical and the one that best suits to the students is negotiated with a reputed firm to offer cashless admission in corporate and reputed private hospitals, which are empanelled with the Insurance company for better medical care in case of emergencies. The students are provided with insurance coverage of Rs. 1.5 lakh for one year period, besides personal accident coverage of Rs. 5.00 lakh.

📥 How to Download Your E-card:

Open the following link in Google: https://www.ericsontpa.com/
Once the page opens, you will find the E-card option at the top of the page. Click on it.
After clicking on the E-card, four boxes will appear:
- First box: Corporate name (do not change this)
- Second box: Enter University of Hyderabad
- Third box: Select Employee ID
- Fourth box: Enter your Registration Number
Fill in the captcha and click on Submit.
A new page will open displaying your details.
Below the details, click on the Submit option.
Your insurance E-card will be generated and available for download.

Additionally, please check and verify the network hospital list available on our website: https://www.ericsontpa.com/

📄 Learn More About Your Medical Insurance Benefits

Download Medical Insurance Benefits Presentation

🗳️ Students' Union

The office of the DSW facilitates student union elections in the university every year. The elections are conducted following the Constitution of the Students' Union and the recommendations of the Lyngdoh Committee, which was constituted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, as per the directions of the Honorable Supreme Court of India in the year 2006. In the academic year 2025-26, the student union elections were completed in September, 2025 and the following students were elected as office bearers of the Students' Union:

Office Bearers (2025-26)

Candidate Name	Registration No.	Post
Siva Palepu	22LAPH09	President
Swardi Debendra	22HAPH14	Vice-President
Shruti Priya	24SEPH23	General Secretary
Saurabh Kumar Shukla	24MBMB17	Joint Secretary
Venus Khundrakpam	21IHML05	Cultural Secretary
Jwala Prasad Kashyap	25HHPH14	Sports Secretary

Apart from the above, the DSW office also conducts elections for the members of ICC (GS-CASH) and School Board Members (P.G, Research) and School Councillors of respective schools.