IIT Guwahati Infrastructure: Library, Hostel, Labs, Gym, Auditorium & Other Facilities

Lisha Gupta

IIT Guwahati is located on 285-hectare acres of land on the north bank of the Brahmaputra River. Academic departments, centres, labs, classrooms, and other facilities are housed in the 74,000 square meters academic complex. More details regarding the IIT Guwahati campus are mentioned below.

Located in a picturesque setting, IIT Guwahati's infrastructure consists of all the modern facilities catering to the academic and extracurricular activities of the students. Check out the salient factors that make the institute’s infrastructure stand out here- GetMyUni Verdict.

• Lecture Halls
• Library
• Computer Centre
• Sports Complex
• Hostel

Lecture Halls: A lecture hall complex with four 250-seat lecture rooms, a 1500-seat auditorium with a state of the art sound system, a smaller mini-auditorium, and a conference complex with four conference halls provide space for teaching and organising various events. Classes take place in lecture halls or smaller classrooms scattered around the academic campus. Individual departments have their own instructional laboratories. 

Library: One of the institute's most important central facilities, the LakshminathBezbaroa Central Library, is a portal to the latest information in the sciences, engineering, technology, humanities, and social sciences. The IIT Guwahati library provides the required support for the teaching, learning, and research operations by providing the latest services to the academic community.

Computer Centre: The IIT Guwahati has a computer centre that is open 24 hours a day, and students come here to complete their computing assignments. For first-year B.Tech students, most departments do computer programming practicals in the centre. A campus-wide network on a Gigabit Ethernet backbone with access points in every hostel room, an internal EPABX, high-capacity internet connections, etc.

Sports Complex: The IIT Guwahati infrastructure has a sports complex that includes an indoor sports stadium with synthetic badminton, table tennis, and squash courts, a gymnasium, students gymkhana office, and an 8-lane 50-meter swimming pool and flood-lit playing fields for all major outdoor sports, offers plenty of opportunities for recreation for campus residents.

Hostel: There are eleven boys and two girls hostels. The room is only for one person. The IIT Guwahati hostel has its own mess, canteen, stationery store, juice centre, pantry, indoor games facilities, gymnasium, music rooms, library, TV room, and laundry room, among other amenities. In every room, high-speed LAN connections are available. Outdoor games such as volleyball, basketball, and football are also available. The institute has offered hostel rooms on campus to all of its students.