Gandhi Engineering College Infrastructure: Library, Hostel, Labs, Gym, Auditorium & Other Facilities

Rajvir Singh

The Gandhi Engineering College infrastructure consists of a beautiful green campus with water fountains placed in gardens all over the 25 acre campus. A huge 5 storeyed architecturally beautiful academic building which accommodates 35 classrooms, 7 computing centres, 400 seater auditorium, 7 GD rooms and various other facilities are available. Following are the amenities at the GEC Bhubaneswar campus:

• Hostel
• 24x7 Medical Facilities
• Twin City Transport facilities
• Central Library
• Browsing Centre & Digital Library
• Media Centre
• Industry Visits & Study Tours
• Multipurpose Gyms
• Central Mess
• Banking Services

Hostel

• GEC Bhubneswar hostel facility is available for both boys and girls in the form of 5 in-campus accommodation buildings.
• Various facilities such as in campus wardens, food, hostel WiFi, library facility, medical services, laundry facilities, gym etc. are provided

24x7 Medical Facilities

• GEC has a well-equipped medical centre which is inside the campus in case of immediate first hand emergency requirement.
• In case of serious cases - they are transferred to the city hospital in Bhubaneswar.
• Institute provides 24/7 ambulance services.

Twin City Transport facilities

• The college provides 20 buses with 50 seater capacity which provide transport services from the college to the heart of the twin cities Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.
• Buses also take students to picnics, industry visits and academic institutions as a tour.
• Institute also provides cars for guests’ ease of commuting.

Central Library

• With the latest designs and fittings the library comes with modern equipment for the benefit of students of GEC.
• Over 14 years the Central library has curated over 27320 volumes with 5673 titles of various disciplines.
• The library has subscribed to over 71 reputed periodicals.
• It has a fully functional e-library which provides students resources from various e-databases.

Browsing Centre & Digital Library

• The Browsing Centre is a part of the Central Library and comes with 20 computer systems with the latest configurations.
• High speed WiFi internet facility is provided to facilitate students’ studies.
• Both students and faculties access e-courses from Coursera, Udemy, Swayam-NPTEL from the digital library.

Media Centre

• The media centre comes with fully equipped and furnished rooms to facilitate smooth recording of lectures and video production for students.
• For the benefit of students branch-wise and course-wise lecture videos are provided on the YouTube channel.
• The equipment provided are - DSLR Camera, Microphone, Handycam, Digital Camcorder, Projector, Tripod stand.

Industry Visits & Study Tours

• In order to inform students about the opportunities, industry visits and study tours are organised by the college
• GEC believes that experiential learning is very important for students’ futures

Multipurpose Gyms

• GEC promoted students to have healthy bodies along with healthy minds 
• Its well furnished gym has various machines such as - 8 section multi machine, 4 section multi machine, crossover machines, smith machines, butterfly machine, running cycle, leg extension and leg press.

Central Mess

• The mess has  a capacity of 1000 students at a time.
• All food items and beverages are served to faculty members and students on payment basis.
• A staff of 43 people are in action to cater to everyone’s needs.

Banking Services

• GEC has an SBI branch which is the campus’s branch.
• There’s an ATM of SBI for everyone throughout the year, open 24*7.