FACILITIES
3.1 Buildings: The Institute has a sprawling complex and the constituent faculties are housed in magnificent buildings with all modern amenities and essential fixtures.
3.2 Libraries, Books and Book-banks: The Institute's libraries contain about 1.75 Lakh books and subscribe to about 180 periodicals and journals in addition to 22 newspapers and magazines. Book-banks in all the faculties cater to the needs of the students who are economically weak. Access to more than 5,000 e-journals and five databases are available through INFLIBNET service of UGC. The library has also purchased five databases of engineering and management disciplines. Scanning, printing and Internet facilities are available for the users of the library. The Central Library is fully computerized with bar-code system.
3.3 Laboratories and Workshops: All the faculties have well-equipped and neatly maintained laboratories and workshops which meet all requirements of the syllabi, consultancy programmes and demands of taking technology to the villages.
3.4 Computer Facilities: The main Computer Centre and other computer facilities at various faculties, colleges, offices, etc., cater to the growing needs of computer courses and a variety of processing applications of the students and the staff of the Institute. All the computers of the Institute are interconnected through a local area network via fiber optic backbone with supervised access to Internet. The facility is extended to the hostels also.
3.5 Multimedia Laboratory: A state-of-the-art Multimedia Laboratory housing cameras, projection systems, video/editing stations amongst other equipments, provides a central point where the Institute generates content for its Distance Education Programmes. This facility is also used on a regular basis to receive and transmit live lectures, and hold interactive sessions with students in remote classrooms both in India and abroad on a regular basis.
3.6 Multimedia Extension: In view of the rapid expansion of courses, an extension to the Multimedia Building has been constructed and is available as central facility.
3.7 International Seminar Hall Complex: The Institute has an InternationalSeminar Hall (area 250 sq. m.) with a seating capacity of 250. In the same complex, 16 rooms are also available to accommodate visitors/guests. The facility is used for organizing International Seminars, Workshops, Symposia and Guest Lectures, etc.
3.8 Information and Communication Technology Building: The Institute has got an Building constructed to facilitate greater accessibility of information through ICT facilities and to receive and transmit programmes in synchronous mode.
3.9 Facilities for Games and Sports: The Institute has a number of large play-grounds which fully cater to the needs for athletics and all outdoor games, like, football, hockey, cricket, basketball, lawn tennis, volleyball and kho-kho. Besides, there are indoor facilities for badminton, table tennis, etc. Games and sports are an integral part of the curriculum of the Institute.
3.10 Medical and Health Care: Students and Staff of the Institute are attended to by the Medical Officer of the Saran Ashram Hospital, Dayalbagh, and are administered treatment for ordinary ailments without charges. The Hospital has provision for pathological testing, diathermy, X Ray and ECG, etc., on payment basis.
3.11 Non-Resident Student Centres: There is a Non-Resident Students Centre (NRSC) for Girls which serves as a composite Reading Room-cum-Common Room-cum-Canteen for the spare time needs of the female day scholars. For male students, there is also an NRSC canteen facility.
3.12 Hostels: Limited accommodation in the hostels of the Institute run by Co-operative Educational Societies in Dayalbagh is available to students who are prepared to live a simple, disciplined and studious life in harmony with other inmates. Students who are desirous of having such accommodation should apply on a prescribed form with a passport size photograph to the Chief Warden of the hostel concerned, through the respective Deans after their admission to the Institute. Students shall be recommended for hostel admission on the basis of merit and availability of seats. Admission to the Institute does not guarantee a seat in the hostel. Only vegetarian food is served in the hostels. Alcohol, drugs and other intoxicants are strictly prohibited.
3.13 National Service Scheme: This Institute has been a pioneer in implementing the scheme since its inception in U.P. Its students have earned a name for the Institute for its consistently good record of social service. Its activities include grow-more-food campaign, shramdaan, adoption of villages for rural reconstruction, campus improvement, sanitation drive, establishing and running of youth clubs and community Centres, teaching child-care to mothers, giving non-formal education and training in self-employment skills. With the coordinated efforts of all faculties, multi-pronged efforts have been made to make a more effective contribution towards rural reconstruction. Participation in N.S.S. Camp is compulsory for all students in the first semester of undergraduate Programmes.
3.14 Scouting/Guiding: Students of BEd have to undergo Scout Masters’/Guides’ training as an essential part of their course requirements. Dayalbagh has the honour of being a separate district within Agra for Bharat Scouts and Guides on account of its glorious contribution to the Scout Movement.
3.15 Co-curricular Activities: The Institute has always encouraged and provided ample opportunities to its students for participation in a wide range of literary & cultural activities and games. Inter-faculty programmes are held by the Institute from time to time. Our students have regularly won prizes at National level-Debates, Seminars, Symposia and National Youth Festivals.
3.16 Guidance & Counseling: Apart from receiving sympathy and sound advice in moments of personal stress and problems, career guidance and counseling are available to the students both for choosing the right subjects and electives when joining the innovative programme and also for knowing their aptitude while deciding their professional career.
3.17 Student’s Diary: A Diary is supplied to every student in which a record of his/her curricular and co-curricular activities is maintained. Guardians are expected to see it from time to time for information regarding the performance of their wards.
3.18 Identity Card: Every student is supplied with an Identity Card containing his/her photograph bearing the signatures of the student duly countersigned by the Dean/Principal concerned. The student will have to produce it when asked for by any competent authority. The Identity Card is not a valid document for issue of a mobile phone SIM card.
3.19 Entrepreneurship Virtual Incubation Cell (EVIC):
TheEVIC aims to adopt an inter-disciplinary systemic approach, whereby initiatives will be institute-wide, without regard to departmental barriers. These initiatives will be incubated in-house with the objective of nurturing social entrepreneurs who will focus on providing low cost solutions in the following primary domains: Education (Culture, Values and Quality), Energy, Health, Water and Waste Management. The EVIC will provide all possible assistance to promote creative thinking and an entrepreneurial mindset among the students so as to help convert socially relevant innovative ideas into market accepted products.