Maintaining Institutional Facilities

Procedures and Policies for Maintaining and Utilizing Physical, Academic and Support Facilities

Maintenance of laboratories is the responsibility of individual departments, with the non-teaching members of these departments providing necessary support in maintaining a stock register which is regularly updated, monitoring usage of equipment, and ensuring clean and hazard-free environment and fire-fighting facilities

The college has a Central Library as well as dedicated Seminar Libraries for each department, with both lending and Reading Room facilities.
The Central Library is located in the Main Building, but has two addition elections in the ACTC Building (Reading Room only) and in the Centenary Building (both lending and reading).
The Library is maintained by its staff comprising Librarians (2), and support staff.
There is also a Library Committee, of which the librarians are ex officio members, and which meets periodically to review activities and suggest improvements for providing better service.

The college has its own tent in the Kolkata Maidan (one of two colleges in Kolkata to have their own sports tent) to compensate for the lack of open grounds in its main campus located in the heart of the city.
The Bhasa campus, located in the suburbs, has spacious grounds for outdoor sports. Both the Maidan Tent and the Bhasa campus are well-equipped with sports equipment like cricket and football, and boxing gear, and body fitness equipment.
TheStudents’CommonRoomintheMainBuildingisalsoequippedwithfacilities for indoor games like carom and table tennis.
A Sports Committee comprising teaching and non-teaching staff and students supervises all sporting activities in the college, including Annual Sports.

The various academic departments are responsible for maintenance of departmental computers and peripherals, while those in use in the Office and Accounts, and IT sections are maintained by the IT section staff.
For purchase of hardware and software, requisitions are submitted by departmental heads to the Vice-Principal’s office, which then arranges procurement of the same. AMCs are made for hardware maintenance.

Class rooms, corridors and stair cases under go periodic inspection by the Building Development Committee which arranges for renovation and repair workas and when necessary, after due process of submitting report to the administration.