Kothiwal Dental College and Research Centre Infrastructure: Library, Hostel, Labs, Gym, Auditorium & Other Facilities

Ayesha Taneem

Campus :- 

• The Campus is built over 11 acres of prime land set in the idyllic environs of Moradabad U.P. 
• Ideally located and is a safe haven of lush greenery, pollution free, with plenty of fresh air, conducive to a student life.
• Gymnasium facilities, outdoor sports activities like football, cricket, volleyball and a well-laid basketball court and 2 Badminton courts are present for honing sports skills, which are useful in relaxing and engaging the mind away from their exhausting academic curriculum. 
• The campus also has a Temple which gives the students
• The campus has faculty residence and interaction with them brings a certain care and shouldering for the students who go through a tough grind in their daily academic and clinical schedules. 

Hostel

• Hostels are well-equipped with wi-fi internet accessibility besides regular facilities like T.V. room and Study Rooms. Besides the main Mess, 24hr coffee shop, canteen facilities (for students and faculty) and grocery store for a basic day to day needs are available.
•  The college provides separate Hostel facilities for girls and boys within the college campus.
• The Hostel combines the modern design sensibility of less is more with a fresh interpretation of traditional concepts of the inner courtyard to allow a natural circulation of light and air.
• The Hostel is equipped with well-furnished rooms for every student, designed to provide environment a home away from home.
• Each floor has been provided with an adequate number of conveniently located toilets and bathrooms with hot water facility.
• The common room in each hostel caters to recreational facilities like T.V., Indoor Games and Newspapers etc.
• Affiliated to a hospital, students will have quick access to a 24-hour medical facility. 
• Female Resident Warden for the Girls and Male Resident Warden for the Boys hostel take good care of the students.

Library

• The Library Kothiwal Dental College & Research Center was set up in the year 2000 and has since been upgraded with the latest of all information catering to the needs of all specialties of dentistry.
• The Central Library is housed in a well-furnished, illuminated and ventilate4hall Covering about 300 sq.ft. Area with a seating capacity of more than 175 Students.
• Separate enclosures are provided for staff and students with internet facility and audio-visual aids. The undergraduate section is separated from the post-graduate' section respecting their separate needs for space and concentration required. It has more than 4746 books related to medical and dental sciences.
• The library subscribes to a large number of foreign and national journals in dentistry.
• It works from early morning till late in the evening with attached Internet cafe having photocopier and scanners.
• The library has all the facilities required in the form of books and journals, internet for surfing, printout facility and even spiral or thermal binding is done within the walls of the library itself.
• The student has the opportunity of browsing the internet from 9 am to 10 pm.

Lecture Theatres

• The college has 4 lecture theaters with seating capacity for 150 students.
• They are well equipped with LCD and OHP projectors and audio-visual equipment to make the lectures livelier.
• Each Department has it's on seminar hall equipped with LCD for the postgraduate teaching program.

Auditorium

• The college also has an auditorium for various cultural events, meetings, and Continuing Dental Education programs.

Transport

• The college also has its own buses for carrying day scholars.
• The transportation facility has received a boost after the setting up of the college fare bus stop providing an easy transport to the students, guardians, general patients and other persons visiting the college.
• Local authorities have generously decided to ply the city bus service on this route.

Sports & Fitness facilities:

• Cricket/ football ground
• Badminton courts
• Basketball court
• Volleyball ground 
• Table Tennis
• Carom
• Chess.
• The college also has an in campus fully equipped gym 

Cafeteria

• The canteen serves one of the best delicacies in its most authentic flavors in a very hygienic manner.

Temple

• The college has a temple on the campus.
• Different festivals are celebrated in a very grandeur way over here.

Museum

• The college has developed a good central museum housing models of anthropology, dental material, anatomy, and embryology.
• Also, there are departmental museums being tended and maintained by each department.
• Charts and models are neatly arranged over there with appropriate description in local language and English.

Mobile Dental Unit

• A state of the art Mobile Dental Unit equipped with two dental chairs with an aerator and scale search along with a light cure unit as accessories were commissioned to the Dept. of Public Health Dentistry in order to take dentistry to the doorsteps of the community.
• The dental chairs have a power generator and an air compressor each.
• Facilities for health education through audio-visual aids are integrated with the unit.
• Since its inception, the MDU has conducted in numerous outreached programs and has traveled thousands of miles across with one motive and with only one goal- "to outreach the common people and to provide them with the necessary treatment”.
• All the treatments done in these outreached programs are free of cost and the patients who are referred to the Department of Public Health Dentistry from these programs are treated free of charge for the majority of their dental problems.