Indian Institute of Soil Science, [IISS] Bhopal Infrastructure: Library, Labs, Auditorium, Cafeteria & Other Facilities

Ayesha Taneem

The Institute is about 10 Km and 7 Km away from Bhopal railway station and Bhopal Airport respectively.

Library, Information and Documentation services

The Institute maintains a library which stocks 1805 books, 1281 Bound Journals, 661 Annual Reports, 28 Foreign Journals, and 43 Indian Journals. It provides document lending, reference and reprographic Services and has AGRIS database of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Training and Referral Soil Testing Laboratory

TRSL laboratory assist the scientists to explore novel methods for soil and plant analysis and is equipped with soil and plant analysis equipment such as distillation unit, spectrophotometer, flame photometer and precision balance.

The other facilities include two screen houses for the conduct of pot experiments, conference hall and conference room fitted with audio visual equipment, training hostel, staff recreation club and indoor and outdoor games facilities.

Infrastructure Development

Screen House

The institute has developed two screen houses for providing facilities to conduct pot experiments as per the requirement of different research projects.

Conference Hall

The institute has well furnished and air-conditioned conference room with a sitting capacity of 120 persons. It has an excellent conferencing facility consisting of audio system with detachable cable mounted microphones, audio-visual projection systems with DLP technology based multimedia projector. Stand by arrangements of slide projector and overhead projector have also been made.