Debraj Roy College, Golaghat Infrastructure: Library, Hostel, Auditorium & Other Facilities

Ayesha Taneem

Facilities :-

Central Library

D.R. College has a Central Library of its own. The Library is in the first floor of the College’s Administrative Building. The floor area of the Library is 3000 sq. ft. The Library is consisted of Librarian’s chamber, one book stack room, two reading rooms; one for the students and other for the Lecturer’s Staff. The Library is a well equipped and well maintained in suitable healthy academic atmosphere.

At present, there are 35,539 books in the Library. In addition to the books, Journals, Daily/Weekly newspapers are subscribed regularly. Each student is provided a non- transferable library card to enable him/her to borrow books from the Library.

The books are arranged in a classified order according to Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) 21 st Classification Scheme.

In the same way, book entry is done by using special software namely, “SOUL 2.0 (LE)” in order to keep the proper data record of the collection of books.

To keep monitoring and view the movements, there are 3 CCTVs installed in the Library area of which 2 are in the Stack room and 1 installed in the Reading room. The CCTVs are controls via the Principal’s Office.

Bibliophilia Cafe

The bibliophilia café is a campus book store, lending library and e-content service provider. Students and faculties can browse the internet, get a print out of reading materials and even can have photocopies in the document centre. The café sore and sale textbooks, reference books, and guides, besides other fictions and non-books at affordable rates.

Womens Hostel

The college has both boys and girls hostel inside the college campus. The boys' hostel can accomodate 30 boarders and girls' hostel has capacity of accomodating 150 boarders. The hostel seats are provided strictly on the basis of merit only, and a few seats are reserved for ST/SC students. For accomodation one has to apply to hostel warden in prescribed form.

College Gymnasium

Keeping in view the fitness aspects of the whole community of the college, a well equipped multi-gymnasium is set up in the college premises under the XIth Plan of UGC.It is in fully functioned since the year 2013.The multigym comprises of several imported modern equipments.Since its inception ,it has got immense popularity amongst the whole community of the college.Users may avail the facility of its different equippments under the guidance of well trainned Physical Instructor.

Campus Sports and Health

The college provides well marked facilities to the students in the field of games and sports. The college has a glorious history of producing sportsman at state as well as national level. The college has very good atmosphere of football and every year student team participates in various tournaments including the DU Inter College Tournament. Where our team became champion in 2004. The college hosts the preliminary round of DU inter college Football and Cricket Tournament every year in the play ground. Recently the college has finished the construction of Pavilion cum gallery cum gym complex with the aid from UGC XIth plan. There is also plan of bringing up one Indoor sports facility as well as swimming pool.