Nalini Bala Devi (NBD) Hostel :

Nalini Bala Devi was a writer and poet of Assamese literature, known for nationalistic as well as mystical poetry. She was awarded the Padmashri Award by the Govt. of India in 1957 for her contribution to literature, and in 1968 she won the Sahitya Academy Award for her poetry collection ‘Alakananda’. She was the first woman Assamese poet to be awarded with Padmashri and the first lady to chair the Assam Sahitya Sabha. A girls’ hostel of Cotton University named after her.