Mysore. 31st December, 2005. Following direction by the GOI, Min of YA & S; and, organized by the NSS, 50 girls and 50 boys from different colleges of the Sikkim stayed in this hostel from 28 Dec 05 to 2 Jan 2006 as a part of Inter State Youth Exchange Programme.

Representing all parts of Sikkim, most of  these classes  11 and 12 students   besides interaction  with the students of  the city based  colleges on different days celebrated  “Deepotsav” followed by  presenting a short cultural programme at the youth hostel  on 31 Dec 05.

Mysore. 18th May, 2002.  Five terms National Chairman Youth Hostel Association of India and the current President of the International Youth Hostel Federation, Dr Harish Saxena had a overnight stay in the hostel on 17th May 02. During his short visit he interacted with membes of the local YHAI Units and caled on the erstwhile wardens - Col and Mrs Venkatraman. On 18th May he called on the the family of the formar national member of the YHAI trust, Late Professor Abdul Majid.

Seen in the photo alongwith Dr Saxena are the warden Cdr N S Sirohi and the hostel staff, standing from left to right are : Prema, Mallesh,N Swamy, Nagendra and Prasad.

Mysore.  12th September, 2000. Hostel inmates of Youth Hostel, Gangothri Layout, celebrated the festival of Onam on sunday. A quiz programme was also conducted, in which 91 students from 17 schools participated

Mysore. 18th September, 2000.  Deputy Commissioner Mr. B. Basavaraju launching the Youth Hostel, Mysore, website recently as Superintendent of Police Mr. K. H. Sreenivas (second from right) and others look on.