HOSTEL FACILITIES
A Home Away from Home!
“Mid pleasures and palaces though we may room, be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.”
But still we at Nalanda define our Dwelling place in the institute as A Home Away from Home. There are three Boys Hostels in the campus with a total capacity of more than 400 students and three Girls Hostels in the city. Every Hostel has been provided with modern facilities, meeting the requirements of students.
Nalanda hostel is just another home for the students. As a 24 x 7 campus, the hostel gives the comfort and feel of being with one’s family. In addition, state-of-the-art security technology is being deployed to ensure complete safety for all residents.
The master plan of the college has a `spine’ that connects the hostel and academic areas. At present, all academic programs at Nalanda are 100% residential. A student who wishes to complete his studies at a top notch institution needs to pass through a rigorous academic program. Most students find that they have to work extra hours and stretch themselves fully to benefit from the learning experience. Campus learning in a true sense must, therefore, integrate classroom learning with tangible and intangible experience outside the classroom and class time. This requires building a variety of facilities and creating an ambience that is conducive to learning. Some salient features of the student hostel are:
- Well-furnished, single and twin sharing accommodation and earth-air cooled hostel rooms.
- Each room positioned to provide a beautiful view of the surrounding.
- 24-hour Internet connection in the rooms through Wi-Fi.
- Thirty six students housed on each floor, at full capacity.
- One Dining Hall, suitably furnished equipped with a TV.
- On-campus sports facilities in the campus including volleyball, basketball, cricket, football, badminton and table tennis.
- Wi-Fi enabled campus so you can always stay connected, wherever you roam.
- Healthy and hygienic dining facility.
- 24-hour medical facilities for emergencies.
- 24-hour ‘Reverse Osmosis’ purified clean drinking water.
- 24-hour security with state-of-the-art technology support.
- A Punjab National Bank, ATM is operational on the campus.
TRANSPORT FACILITIES
Nalanda has an excellent transport facility for the faculty, staff & students with flexible and competitive fare. Over six hundred students in the college are availing bus facility from the Institute. We have trained bus drivers who are efficient in their work. Above all this student protection is our main motto that we have maintained till now.
Buses are well equipped with Advance facilities for the convenience of the students and staff. The transport facility remains available for any kind of emergency round-the-clock. Management is about to purchase more buses as per the demand so that not a single student has to face problem while travelling. The Institute buses are operated in many different- routes across Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.
LIBRARY
The institute has a dedicated, large, spacious & well furnished library for its students. Well equipped professional facilities which include E-Library with a collection of more than 30,000 books, thousands of journals (National and International), weekly & monthly megazines, daily newspapers in English, Oriya and Hindi are available for both students and staffs.
The library at Nalanda emanates the ethos of the Engineering College. It is a major attraction for students as not only does it offer a variety of academic information, it also stimulates the intellectual pursuit of students in a lovely ambience.
Library is open from morning till late evening and even till mid-night during examinations. Apart from books on technical subjects related to discipline and courses, it houses books of general interest, magazines and daily newspapers. Well equipped with more than 50 journals in print, both national and international, the library supports the research needs across varied disciplines.
Library facilitates purchase of text-books for students on the basis of individual requests received at the time of registration. A library is a necessity in one’s academic life, and the library at Nalanda gives a fabulous enabling environment to research and is indeed the ‘room for the birth of ideas’.