IIFM Bhopal Infrastructure: Library, Hostel, Gym, Auditorium, Cafeteria & Other Facilities

Megha KS

The Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, was established in 1982.  It is located in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The Indian Institute of Forest Management provides all the facilities to students. More details related to the IIFM Bhopal infrastructure are given below.

Computer Labs

• The computer centre has the hardware and software resources to serve a wide range of computing requirements.
• IIFM Bhopal Lab has a local area network (LAN) with several PCs and state of the art Geographic Information System (GIS) and image processing facilities.
• Students get access to computers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Campus-wide local area network with wireless LAN support on a fibre optic backbone, with computers from various domains supporting Word Processing, Spreadsheet and RDBMS Packages, Statistical Software, CASE Tools, Programming languages, Project Management, and Financial Accounting Software.
• Latest TFT-display desktops, AO-sized scanners, AO-sized plotters, Laser and High-Speed Printers, ARC/INFO GIS Software, ERDAS Imagine Digital Image Processing Software, SPSS, and Tally.
• 24 hour Internet access, Wi-Fi classrooms, and e-mail via a dedicated leased line of 4 MBPS from BSNL and the National Knowledge Network (NKN) can be used by the students. Video conferencing is also available for a variety of purposes.

Hostel

• The hostel complex is made up of three hostels: Nilgiri, Vindhyachal, and Aravalli. All hostels have a solar/geyser system providing hot water throughout the year.  
• IIFM Bhopal hostel has common rooms with TV and DTH connection, a gym, and indoor games, among other amenities.
• The internet is available in the hostel rooms via LAN.
• Every other day, doctors come to the IIFM Campus. Students can consult them for free, but they must obtain their own medications. In a medical emergency, students are given access to the institute's vehicle, which allows them to consult doctors outside of campus.
• The hostel complex has three air-conditioned rooms available for parents visiting their wards at a low cost.

Mess: Mess is governed by a student mess committee on a cooperative basis. It is equipped with fully mechanised and semi-automatic cooking technologies. It can accommodate roughly 300 individuals at a time.

Sports

• The IIFM Bhopal offers various sports facilities. 
• Indoor and outdoor sports such as badminton, lawn tennis, table tennis, carrom, football, cricket, and volleyball are well-supported at the institute.

Library-

• The IIFM Bhopal library features cutting-edge technical applications as well as print and digital assets.
• The library primarily houses information on forestry, climate change, the environment, management, and related topics. 
• It has a massive collection of over 42820 volumes. The library was a subscriber to 207 print periodicals, including newspapers, magazines, and foreign journals.
• The library offers over 2200 online full-text journals as well as several abstracting databases to its users.
• It provides information services and access to digital resources to support faculty, PFM students, MRM students, research scholars, MDP participants, and the wider academic community's informational needs.