St Joseph Teacher Training Institute Infrastructure: Library, Hostel, Gym, Auditorium, Cafeteria & Other Facilities

Ayesha Taneem

Hostel Facilities:
There are separate hostels for men and women in the campus. The college runs St. Joseph’s Hostel for male students. It can accommodate 60 students. The monthly rent is Rs.300 per student. Fr. Thomas P.J. and Mr. Jose K.S serve as warden and assistant respectively. The female students are accommodated in Pope John and Holy Family hostels which are attached to K.E College, a sister institution of the college. The monthly hostel fee is around Rs 1500. The Hostels provide and maintain suitable atmosphere for serious study and promotes social integration, religious harmony and co-existence.

Computer Centre:
The College has taken initiative in spreading Computer literacy in this village since 1988. Computer Education is imparted to B.Ed. students in the well-equipped computer laboratory with 31 computers. Networking, Internet facilities and Delnet access are also available. Every faculty and student can receive free service of the computer facility at any time. The computer lab is open to all students. They can make use of it in their free time also. A full-time computer instructor is appointed in the computer lab. B.Ed. students are given certificate for the short-term courses and a 10 months certificate course for members of Dalit families associated with Samagra Vikas.

Library:
The college library is located in the ground floor of the newly constructed Golden Jubilee Block for easy access to students of M.Ed., B.Ed. and TTI and occupies approximately an area of 4000 sq.ft.
Library collection includes 23702 books on different subjects. About 95% of the books are in English and less than 5% in Malayalam. There are several books written by corporate authors such as UNESCO, AERA, APA, NCERT, UGC & SCERT. There are 47 sets of Encyclopedia, 20 Educational Journals, 18 Periodicals, 228 CDs, 981 Back volume of journals and 4 Newspapers. Our reference collection consist of around 3134 books. It includes a few publications of the faculty members and those published under the auspicious of the DEPSE. Many of the classical books in different discipline are in the holding, a few of which were gifted to the library by our principals, faculty members and well wishers. During the last three years about 642 books worth of Rs. 173831 and 9 journals and several educational CD’s were added to the library. It is equipped with reprography, computer facility with free internet and a good collection of audio-video cassettes and CDs on the emerging issues relevant to subjects.

Rain Water Harvesting Plant:
The college has rain water harvesting facility in the Jubilee block with an underground tank which can hold 100000 liters of water . In order to ensure continuous water supply the college has 3 water tanks each having 10000 liter capacity. In addition, there are 2 reserve tanks each of which can hold 50000 liters of water. It has 2 water purifiers for supplying purified drinking water.