Maintenance of Campus Facilities

4.4.1
How does the institution ensure optimal allocation and utilization of the available financial
resources for maintenance and upkeep of the following facilities ( substantiate your statements
by providing details of budget allocated during last four years)?

a.

Building

b.

Furniture

c.

Equipment

d.

Computers

e.

Vehicles

f.

Any other

The institution ensures optimal allocation and utilization of the available financial
resources for maintenance and upkeep of the above said facilities through properly constituted
Maintenance Committee. During the past four years, the college management has undertaken
massive renovation of building work. For furniture and fixtures, a regular stocktaking is
undertaken by the college authorities and necessary repair work is undertaken by the college
annually. All major equipments like air-conditioners, refrigerators, coolers, Computers, Printers
and Scanners are repaired as and when need arise. The Maintenance Committee physically
examines these facilities and shortcomings are discussed in their meetings, suggestions are
welcomed from the committee members. Tender is floated and vendors are asked to give detailed
quotations with their terms and conditions. After that vendors proposal are discussed in the
meeting and unanimous decisions are taken. The major maintenance budgets are allocated for
building maintenance. The information given below indicates the expenditure incurred for major
maintenance works carried out in the college. Although a number of facts pertaining to
maintenance of different resources have already been given in the previous section, for the sake
of convenience they are being replicated here along with other facts.

4.4.2

What are the institutional mechanisms for maintenance and upkeep of the
facilities and equipment of the college?

infrastructure,

The college has a Maintenance Committee which looks after the maintenance requirements and
makes recommendations to college management.

4.4.3 How and with what frequency does the institute take up calibration and other precision measures for
the equipment/instruments?
Since our college does not have any science courses, therefore, there is no need for calibration
of precision scientific instruments as such.
4.4.4

What are the major steps taken for location, upkeep and maintenance of sensitive
equipment( voltage fluctuations, constant supply of water etc.)?
The college has three phase electric supply, voltage stabilizers, UPS and has full power
back up with 125 KVA Gen-Set. The college has overhead tanks for storage of water for
constant supply of water at all floors of the building with RO provisions. For constant supply of
water, the college stores water in overhead tanks, and also have provision for underground water
with RO system installed.