Banasthali
University has been a leading institution in the field of women education since
1935. The institution has an area extending to 850 acres having numerous
buildings of different statures and sizes, housing various academic and
administrative blocks.
The campus has been broadly divided into the University
division, School division and the residential blocks and is capable of
fulfilling the basic requirements of its inhabitants.
CAMPUS AMENITIES:
a) Accommodation
Banasthali
University is a residential institution. There are 29 hostels with a capacity of
housing 110 to 438 students. The network and Internet access has been extended
to all hostels providing the students unlimited opportunities to unleash the
power of the Internet.
There are more than 400 fully equipped staff quarters of different types,
ranging from one - storeyed houses to multi -storeyed modern apartments and one
Working Women’s Hostel with 113 seats.
b) Sports
The campus has
quality infrastructure for games and sports programmes. The Laxmi Bai maidan
(26,690 sq. meters) is used for activities such as parade and annual fairs. It
also has a stage and projection room for regular cultural programmes and
film shows .. The Vidula
Maidan
(41,950 sq. meters) has fields for games such
as hockey, volleyball, basket ball, tennis, yoga, martial arts and mass physical
display activities. Adequate space for indoor games such as badminton and table
tennis is also available. The swimming pool is open for students, staff members
and their families Another unique activity carried on since long is horse riding
for which there are 41 horses and a field called
‘Veer Bala Maidan’
(25,390 sq. meters).
The infrastructure
for games and sports is continuously upgraded in terms of quality and
facilities.The Vidyapith has a Cricket Ground inaugurated as "Shakuntlam Play
Ground" on January 26, 2008 by the President, Banasthali University.
c) Air Strip
There is a
licensed air strip of 50,191,418 sq. meters in the Banasthali University which
is used for training the students in gliding and flying. This has been one of
the activities introduced as early as 1960 even before
Banasthali got the University
status. A regular flying club, BVGFC (Banasthali Vidyapith Gliding and Flying
Club) has
started on January 9, 2009.
d) Central Library
In
the Central Library
access to Internet is provided via
around 8 Mbps Internet is provided
via different modes such as BSNL leased line, VSNL leased line . The library has been using the
LIBSYS, an Integrated Library Management software package with all the modules
for the library housekeeping operations. The library online Catalogue (OPAC) has
more than 1.60 lakhs records of books (Bibliographic Information) and 13,500
back volumes of periodicals. The library currently receives over 600 periodical
titles of which 550 are subscribed while the remaining titles are received as
gratis. About 9000 titles are accessible online under UGC-INFONET Consortia.
e) FM Radio Station-
A
‘Community FM
Radio Station’
known as
‘Radio
Banasthali’
broadcasts
educational and entertainment programmes locally recorded by the students and
staff of Banasthali. It operates at 90.4 MHz and serves the campus and the
community within a radius of 30 km around Banasthali.
f) Hospital
The Banasthali
University has its own hospital,
“Apaji
Arogya Mandir"
with 60
beds, qualified doctors and other hospital staff. The hospital works round the
clock throughout the year.
g) Guest House-
Round the year
there are guests in campus on official assignments .The parents and guardians
of the students and visitors are provided accommodation in the well- maintained
and fully- furnished university guest house. The staff here works on the
principle of
ATITHI DEVO BHAVAH.
h) Transport
Minibuses are run
as shuttle service at the interval of 15 minutes. Bus is also provided to the
Banasthali-Newai Railway station 7 kms. away from the campus. The Rajasthan
Roadways provides regular to and fro bus service between Jaipur and the campus
via Newai almost every hour from 6.00 am to
6.00 pm.
i) IT infrastructure
The IT infrastructure at
Banasthali is comparable to any world class university. Apart from the state of
the art Servers and Workstations at Apaji institute of Mathematics & Applied
Computer Technology, every department and office of Banasthali has adequate
computing facilities along with high bandwidth Internet access which is provided
through a fibre optic Campus Network.
Artech-Dalmia I.T. Center has increased this IT infrastructure
manyfold. The center has been constructed with partial financial assistance from
Shri M.H. Dalmia and Artech LTD. The Centre has smart class rooms and high end
computing laboratories for Computer Aided Design, Scientific Computing,
Microelectronics & VLSI design, and Computational Biology.
Besides these facilities, the following amenities are available at the campus:
a. UCO Bank, Co-operative Bank, State Bank of India, UCO Bank ATM, SBI ATM, ICICI Bank ATM
b. Post office with a facility of Speed Post
c. BSNL Electronic Exchange
d. Courier Service
e. Fully equipped shopping complexes and vegetable marts
f. College canteens
