Surrounded by greenery, the College of Agriculture Pune campus offers a wide array of amenities to the students so that they have an excellent experience during their academic journey. Some of such facilities are classrooms, central library, laboratories, sports complex, canteen, residences, and dispensary.
To enable a conducive learning environment for the students, premises of the College have a number of classrooms & these are well-equipped with ample teaching aids. The 30-seater Seminar Hall present at the College of Agriculture Pune campus is developed over an area of nearly 1000 square feet.
‘Rao Bahadur P. C. Patil Hall’ available at the premises of the College has seating capacity of around 60 students. This hall is equipped with high-tech facilities like digital podium, overhead projectors, AV aids, and much more so that activities like seminars, placement training sessions, etc. can be organised. The College also has ‘Shirname Hall’, ‘Cultural Hall’, student conference hall, co-operative store, workshops, store rooms, herbarium, and other such spaces.
Student seeking College of Agriculture Pune campus tour prior to admission can read below-discussed points as these have comprehensive details regarding major academic and non-academic facilities:
- Library: Central Library of the College covers around 1550 square feet of area & has enough space to accommodate more than 250 students. Here, a wide array of study materials including 50,300+ books, 7935+ book banks, 5160+ journals, 335+ CDs, around 10 cassettes, maps, reports, and much more are available to help students in their studies. For automation, the central library uses ‘KOHA-LMS’ software.
Other than the stack area, the infrastructure of the library includes separate reading rooms / halls (for UG, PG & female students), conference hall, and so on. Audio-visual, internet, reference, circulation, xerox, and various other services are provided by the central library. Sufficient PCs with internet connectivity are present at the College as well so that students can navigate nearly 148 e-books and other online resources. Students can also access their program-specific print academic resources at ‘Knowledge Cells’ i.e., sectional libraries.
- Laboratories: Inside the academic blocks of the College, adequate computing facilities are available for the students in order to help them in improving their technical skills. Departments like Science, Management, Agriculture, and others have their separate sets of laboratories so that students can learn how to apply theoretical concepts into practical settings.
The Chemistry lab, Biotechnology lab, Plant Tissue Culture lab, Soil lab, and many other departmental labs of the College have modern equipment and instruments.
- Sports: A ‘Sports Complex’ of the College provides a wide range of sports amenities to the students including kits, gears, and so on. A Cricket Field, Football Ground, Hockey Ground, 2 Basketball, Kho-Kho, Kabaddi Courts (each), and 3 Volleyball Courts are a few dedicated sports spaces available at the campus. For indoor games like Table-Tennis, and Badminton, there is an ‘Indoor Hall’ as well.
Additional sports facilities are provided for games like Wrestling, Weight-Lifting, Athletics (a 400-metre Athletic Track), etc. The College has teams of various sports who participate in different College and State level sporting tournaments and win awards & medals.
- Hostel: Nearly 8 College of Agriculture Pune Hostels like ‘Purandar’, ‘Ganga’, ‘Krushna’, ‘Godavari’ and others have around 346 fully-furnished rooms in different occupancies. In total, upto 483 students can stay at girls’ hostels and boys’ hostels have capacity of around 361 students.
Mess, CCTV cameras, purified drinking water, reading halls, games arena, and various other facilities are present at the residential buildings of the College to create a home-away-from-home environment for the inmates.
- Canteen: Students can explore affordable food options and other snacks & beverages at College’s canteen during their free time.
- Healthcare Facilities: Premises of the College houses a ‘Dispensary’ so that students can get quality medical treatment in case of any ailment and injuries. This dispensary offers other healthcare facilities & services including O2 concentration machine, ECG, pulse oximeter, nebulisation, etc.
Regular healthcare camps are also held by qualified medical professionals at the dispensary to help students lead a healthier lifestyle.
- Gymnasium: The College of Agriculture Pune campus houses a ‘Gymkhana’ wherein students are provided with advanced fitness tools and machines so that they can follow their workout regimen and stay healthy & fit.
Units of ‘National Cadet Corps’ (NCC) and ‘National Service Scheme’ (NSS) are functional at the College, which students can join to take part in communal activities, improve their personality & other skills, and contribute to the betterment of the Country.
The College of Agriculture Pune campus also has an ‘Anti-Ragging Committee’ that is formed with the purpose to make sure that the campus has a safe, respectful & ragging-free atmosphere.
