NIT Durgapur Infrastructure: Library, Hostel, Gym, Auditorium, Cafeteria & Other Facilities

Hafsha Qureshi

NIT Durgapur offers various facilities to its students. These facilities include banks, canteen, modern accommodation facilities, etc. Further details regarding the NIT Durgapur campus are cited below.

• Hostel
• Guest House
• High Voltage Laboratory
• Canteen
• Library
• Banks
• Medical Unit
• Other Facilities

Hostel: The NIT Durgapur hostel offers accommodation facilities for students. They are housed in seven boys hostels and two girls hostels. A canteen for students and employees is located near the main academic building. The majority of the institute's professors and staff live in residential quarters. A shopping complex is located in the heart of the residential area and caters to the residents daily needs. A model co-educational higher secondary school has been established for the children of institute employees. 

Guest House: The guest house is next to the director's bungalow that caters to the official and non-official visitors. It's a two-storey structure with modern living quarters that overlooks a lovely garden with towering sal trees. Faculty and student guests are also accommodated there with advanced reservations and according to availability.

High Voltage Laboratory: The NIT Durgapur high voltage laboratory has the following facilities for graduate research and undergraduate instruction.

• Impulse Voltage Generator – 800 KV
• 500 mm Sphere Gap for HV Measurement
• Impulse Voltage Divider (damped capacitive type) –800 kV
• Digital Impulse Oscilloscope with Software
• 300 KV AC Power Frequency HV Testing Transformer
• AC Divider 300KV
• Partial Discharge Measuring System
• Coupling Capacitor
• Vessel for Vacuum and Pressure
• Measuring Sphere Gap - 500mm
• RIV Measuring Instrument
• Operation with Information Communication Technology (ICT) 
• Resistivity Meter
• Leakage Current Tester

Canteen: The canteen facilities available at the NIT Durgapur are: 

• Hall 5 Canteen
• B/L Cafe
• Wonder Cafe
• Nescafe
• Roy Restaurant
• Chitrangani
• Chandu Tea Stall
• Techno

Library

• A well-equipped xerox machine is available at the library. Users can take advantage of this service for a small fee. 
• It also has audio-visual equipment such as colour televisions, VCRs, video cameras, projectors, and multimedia projectors, among other things. It also has a well-developed IT infrastructure. 
• DELNET (Developing Library Network), American Centre Library, Kolkata, NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning), and Current Science Association, Bangalore are all institutional members of the National Institute of Technology Durgapur library. 
• It is also a member of the eSodh Sindhu (ESS) Consortium, which gives desktop access to high-quality e-resources (online journals and databases) such as the Springer Link 1700 collection, Nature Magazine, ACM journals, ASCE, ASME, AIP, APS, JCCC, JStore, and others. 
• The library is also a member of the National Digital Library of India (NDLI), which gives users content access to books from some of India's most prominent publishers. It has a large number of learning resources. 
• It also has a large collection of E-Books on Computer Science, Chemical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, published by leading publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, CRC Press (T&F), and Oxford University Press that can be accessed via the institute's website.

Banks: The NIT Durgapur campus area has two banks:

• State Bank of India
• Canara Bank

Medical Unit: The NIT Durgapur infrastructure has an isolation ward for COVID-19 positive patients. It has morning and evening OPDs except for Sundays and holidays. The unit offers round the clock medical emergencies. It has 24 hours ambulance services. One for general patients and the other for COVID-19 patients. The medical unit facilities include a pharmacy, observatory beds, isolation wards for students (for chickenpox, measles, etc.), dressing rooms, sample collection centre, nebulisation, and insurance help desk.

Other NIT Durgapur Facilities

• Post Office
• Computer Centre