Indian Agricultural Research Institute - IARI Infrastructure Details

Divya Verma

Infrastructure Facilities at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, [IARI] New Delhi

Campus:

• The employees of the institute are alloted residences within the institute with 24 hr water supply and electricity.
• The greenery and noise-free environment make the institute, a place worth living.
• The campus has a staff colony, guest houses, transportation, security, 24/7 medical facility and many other.
• The Institute of IARI has ASRB online examination facility.
• The institute established a National Phytotron facility in 1997 to study the response of the plants.
• The institute has Pesticide Referral Laboratory, Library, instrument facilities, bus facility, gymnasium, auditorium, and large sports ground and college canteen.
• The institute has many other facilities like hostels, spacious classrooms, workshops, clinical labs, etc.

Library:

• IARI Library is one of the largest and the finest agro biological libraries in South East Asia housing total of 3,34,128 publications including books/monographs, journals reports, bulletins, postgraduate theses, and other reference materials, etc.
• The Library is subscribing 116 Foreign Periodicals, 185 Indian journals and advances annual reviews and procured journals/serials through gifts and exchanges (out of which 30 journals are online), 47 Advances & Annual Reviews, 650 newsletters.
• Exchange relationship is maintained with 65 institutions globally and nationally by sending 152 annual reports, ICAR journals and society publications.
• IARI Library was declared as an input center for National Agricultural Research Database (NARD) under AGRIS Project.
• The Library was assigned the job of scanning, articles from 10 most important Indian journals. The input was done in ISO format using AGRIN methodology.
• Apart from approximately 2000 registered members, the Library is serving approximately 150 to 200 users per day coming from different agricultural universities / ICAR Institutes.
• Document Delivery is given within three days through e-mail.
• Membership of DELNET and INFLIBNET has been taken for better Document Delivery Service and Networking.
• Providing CD-ROM services. 15 user terminals are provided to users in CD-ROM workstation of the library. These databases are accessible through LAN for Scientists / Students / Users of IARI.
• Language lab was established with a seating capacity of about 50 participants to facilitate language classes for foreign students with modern facilities like 30 computers Pentium V with internet facility, interactive board, visualizers, interactive panel, headphones, etc.
• A memorandum was signed with C-DAC (Ministry of Information Technology, Govt. of India) on 4th September 2004 to digitize old documents. These books are accessible through “Digital Library of India”. The first phase of the above project ended on 31st March 2007.
• Online Access of Approx. 2380 e-Journals is provided on LAN to the scientific community, Students and other users of the institute to create e-access culture among scientists/teachers in ICAR Institutes / Agricultural Universities.

Sports Facilities:

• The Institute encourages extracurricular activities that enrich the cultural, physical and social life of students.
• Spacious playgrounds are provided near the student hostels and necessary facilities exist for outdoor games like cricket, football, hockey, volleyball, tennis, badminton and various athletic events.
• There are facilities also for indoor games like Chess, Carom and Table Tennis in each hostel.
• There is a Students Sports Fund to which every student subscribes at the beginning of each academic year.
• Various yoga classes are organized free of cost from time to time to make awareness in students and residents for fitness.
• IARI actively organizes the sports meet where students get to show their talents.
• Students participate in various sports activities, each sport has a institute level team to participate in sports competition.

Laboratories:

• The Seed Testing Laboratory of the Institute has got the status of CSTL under the Ministry of Agriculture and serves as a Referral Laboratory for all the 96 seed testing labs located in different parts of the country.
• National Pesticide Referral Laboratory was established under Team of Excellence, National Agricultural Technology Project in 2002.