NIT Calicut Infrastructure: Library, Hostel, Labs, Gym, Auditorium & Other Facilities

Bhavishya Thimmaiah

NIT Calicut is located in the foothills of the Western Ghats. It is situated about 22 kilometres northeast of Calicut city, nestled in a picturesque terrain at the foothills of the Western Ghats. It is a fully residential campus that houses academic buildings, research labs, hostels, residences and other amenities. Details regarding the NIT Calicut campus are given below.

• Hostel
• Mess
• Medical
• Campus Networking Centre
• Central Computer Centre
• Library
• Other Facilities

Hostel: NIT Calicut hostel can accommodate around 5000 students. There are 15 hostels, of which 13 are for men, and 2 are for women, available for accommodation. A common room and recreational centre with newspapers, magazines, television and indoor games are available in each hostel. Guest room facilities are available at each hostel. Amenities like 24 hr water and electricity with power backup is available. Gym facilities, hostel library, tailor, indoor sports centre, DTP centre, Ice cream shop, mess and co-operative stores are also available.

Mess: The college has 14 messes serving food with a wide variety of menu catering demands of students from all over India. Apart from the main messes, night messes operate up to midnight, enabling students to take tiffin and snacks during their overnight studies.

Medical: The NIT Calicut houses a health centre that is open 24*7. There are medical officers and qualified nursing staff to take care of the residents. It has 10 beds for the patients and an ambulance & referral facility to nearby hospitals in case of emergencies.

Campus Networking Centre: The National Institute of Technology Calicut infrastructure has an extensive fibre optic network. It manages the network services high-end computational servers on which students, staff and faculty connect. The campus network comprises nearly 25 km of fibre optic cable with 50 routed internal networks. All of the servers are quad-core processor servers with outstanding performance.

Central Computer Centre: The computer centre at NITC has 190+ client machines that include 400+ machines. The client systems are both desktop and workstation. It caters to the computing requirement of the entire community of the NIT Calicut. 

Library: There is a central library available for both students and faculty that houses OPAC, E-books, journals (online and printed), newspapers and magazines. It houses over one lakh technical books. The NIT Calicut library also has a digital library with connections to different sources like NPTEL, Dspace, Eduserver, J-Gate, Mathscint, Grammarly, etc. A reprographics division, which includes a graphic studio, offset press, and binding section, is also located in the library.

Other NIT Calicut Facilities

• Postal and Banking Facility
• Engineering Unit
• Mobile Communication Services