Infrastructure and physical assets
Availability of infrastructure and physical assets:
- Land
a) Whether land (acquired) is registered in the name of the institution “deemed to be university” With the permission of UGC and MHRD, the University uses the same registration as Ramakrishna Mission, its parent body / sponsoring society. All the land is registered in the name of Ramakrishna Mission and allotted to the University by a resolution of the Governing Body of Ramakrishna Mission b) Provide evidence NA - Building
Nature of use of Auditoriums (get details of events held there in the last 2 years) Belur campus: 2-day seminar on ‘Indian Scientific Heritage’ held in February 2007; Foundation day celebration held on 4 July 2007; Foundation day and Convocation held on 4 July 2008, 2009; Coimbatore, Narendrapur, Ranchi campus: Various seminars, workshops, awareness programmes, etc conducted. Coimbatore campus conducted convocations in 2006, 2007, 2008 for the Faculties of Disability and Physical Education. b) Capacity of Hostels (for boys) 380 c) Capacity of girls’ Hostel 56 d) Ratio of residential students (boys) to number of rooms in Boys’ Hostel 5 : 1 e) Ratio of residential students (girls) to number of rooms in Girls’ Hostel 4 : 1 f) Ratio of residential students to non-residential students 1 : 1 at Coimbatore Centre; 5 : 1 at Belur main campus - Library
a) Whether digitized No b)Availability of bar coding & reprographic facilities Yes, available c) Number and Capacity of reading rooms 6; capacity: around 250 at a time d) System of issue & receipt of books – whether computerized or manual Computerized e) Details of books / journals At Belur campus (library being newly developed): 7300 Journals: JSTOR subscribed through INFLIBNET; Mathscinet subscription through INFLIBNET being processed For details of books and journals, see Appendix I f) Details of equipment For details of equipment see Appendix II g) Whether INFLIBNET facilities available Yes (associate membership received in January 2009) - Laboratory (institution-wise)
a) Ratio of area of laboratories to students (of relevant courses) On an average, 50 sq.ft. per student b) Ratio of computers hours to students (of relevant courses) 8 computer hours per student per day c) Whether high value equipments are used and in what frequency Yes, constantly used; as examples, the Braille equipment at our Coimbatore Centre, tissue culture lab, equipment at our Centres at Ranchi and Narendrapur d) Whether students are capable of using laboratory equipments Yes e) Whether faculty is capable of using laboratory equipments Yes - Classrooms (institution-wise)
a) Ratio of area of classrooms / lecture halls only to number of regular students Since the no. of students in specialized areas like Disability Management and Special Education, Integrated Rural Development, Theoretical Computer Science, Pure Mathematics, Theoretical Physics etc (many at the postgraduate/research level) is fairly small, class rooms about 300-400 sq. ft. are being used for students’ strength of 20-30. In the new buildings being constructed, we have provision for a large no. of class rooms/discussion rooms/seminar rooms etc. with a view to future expansion b) Number of shifts when classrooms are utilized Day shift only c) Whether classrooms are used for Distance Learning programmes No. But Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has provided satellite connectivity to the University for tele-education, tele-medicine etc. under ISRO-VRC (Village Resource Centre) scheme
