MAKAUT Campus: Infrastructure and Facilities Details

Divya Verma

Updated on - Dec 12, 2024

The Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal (MAKAUT) offers students access to cutting-edge facilities and contemporary conveniences. The university occupies 40 acres of property in Haringhata, District Nadia, which was donated by the West Bengal government. Sports, a library, MAKAUT WB centres, and other amenities are available. Both male and female dorms are available at the university.

The 45,000-square-foot West Bengal State Archives Building served as the initial location for MAKAUT University. There is a hostel on the MAKAUT campus that can house 90 students, both male and female.

More details related to the MAKAUT campus and infrastructure are given below:

• The library on the MAKAUT campus was founded in 2004 with a few book racks and some donated books and has been upgraded to a fully functional hybrid library where it is now possible to access information about the physical items as well as the digital holdings in the form of e-books and e-journals, multimedia CDROMs and software from anywhere through a single unified web-based interface.
• The MAKAUT Library has both e-resources and print resources. It has a total collection of 25965 books, among which 10131 are e-books, 6000 ( approx.) e-journals 20 print journals, including 4 foreign journals.
• The library has also purchased the e-collection of Annual reviews back volume. The library also has a good collection of CDs, audio Cassettes, and DVDs. The library is focusing on e-resources due to a shortage of space.
• The University library is now a member of E-Sodh -Sindhu (UGC Infonet) Digital Library consortia. The university is getting e-journals like IEEE, Cambridge University Press, Economic & Political Weekly, ISID, JCCC, Oxford University Press, SpringerLink, Taylor & Francis from the consortia, and the University itself is subscribing to e-journals like IEE, Elsevier, Springer Nature, ACM Digital Library, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Taylor and Francis, etc.
• The library is an open-access library that gives its user the facility to directly go to the rack and choose his/ her books. The reading room has a seating capacity of 56 users at a time.
• It also has 10 terminals running on the LTSP system used for a digital library facility. On average, 60- 70 students use the library per day. 
• Users become aware of the library rules and regulations and how to use the services through the library portal. The library alerts the user through notifications about the library program and activities using the university's e-mail service.
• Since all university classroom is projected and connected to the internet, digital resources like images of the CDs accompanying the books, e-books, and e-journals of the library can be accessed from classrooms to aid the teaching.

MAKAUT Campus Sports Facilities:

• Badminton
• Basketball 
• Chess
• Cricket
• Football 
• Handball
• Hockey
• kabaddi
• Kho-Kho
• Table Tennis
• Tennis
• Volleyball

Other Facilities:

• Cultural Activities
• NSS