You've heard of bamboo houses, but classrooms? Yes, the idea has taken seed in many Delhi University colleges that are gearing up to cope with thousands of additional entrants amid an infrastructure crunch.

"We can't keep waiting to hear from the local bodies for permission for construction. Fact is the college needs classrooms and we have decided to build them with bamboo which will have a capacity to accommodate about 45 students," Savita M. Dutta, principal of Maitreyi College, told IANS.