Shubhanchal Working Women Hostel

Vikas Sadan, opposite INA Colony — that is what shows up first. A hostel building in New Delhi 110023, listed in the Central Delhi part of the city. The board outside carries the name Shubhanchal Working Women Hostel. Beyond that, the listing stays quiet.

The name tells you who it is for. Working women. It sits under working women hostel and girls PG in the directory, so the usual callers are women who have come to Delhi for a job, a transfer or training and need a place to stay.

What the listing does not carry is almost everything else. No website, no opening hours, no room tariffs, no mention of meals. A first-time caller should not expect to read any of that here.

The one firm detail is the phone number, 011 2465 3740. Ring it to ask what rooms are free, how many women share a room, what the monthly charge works out to, and what the gate timings are. These change from month to month, so a call gives you better answers than anything written down elsewhere.

For getting there, feed the full address into maps: Vikas Sadan, opposite INA Colony, New Delhi 110023. If you want to see the place before deciding, call ahead and fix a time, since no visiting hours are published.