Budge Budge College, Kolkata Facilities Details: Hostel, Campus, Infrastructure, Library, Canteen

The college has a separate sick room to provide immediate medical assistance to any member of the college community, especially the students in case they are in ill health or in the event of a medical emergency. It is fortified with a comfortable bed and a well-stocked first aid medicine kit with all the essentials of emergency medical care.

The college is equipped with a state-of-the-art gymnasium stocked with various equipment, where the students can work out for improving their stamina and for staying fit.

The library has a vast repository of approximately 22,000 plus texts and reference books in both English and Bengali, spanning an amalgam of faculties and encompassing varied streams --- Commerce, Economics and Accountancy; Bengali and English Language and Literature; Arts subjects like History, Philosophy, Political Science; Interdisciplinary subjects like Education, Geography; Science streams like Botany, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Food and Nutrition, Microbiology, Physics, and Zoology. A colossal assemblage of apposite and updated books has been accomplished to corroborate the proposed initiation of Economics Honours and Sanskrit General courses. The documents are increased every year by purchasing books and journals of various subjects. In addition, the Library subscribes to a repertoire of journals, magazines, career-counselling periodicals, and newspapers in English and Bengali for reference purposes. Also, the library holds a collection of educational CD-ROM and DVDs for referencing and giving further support to education and research. One small well-furnished stack room has already been organized for storage of at least 3,000 books at a time. For easy access to books, a well-maintained catalogue cabinet is upgraded further with cards being updated regularly.

The college organizes Annual Sports and comes up with highly commendable performances in every field. It has a good tradition of performance in inter-college tournaments of football and cricket arranged by Calcutta University and District Sports arranged by D.P.I. The shot-put, javelin, and discus throwers usually come up with good performances at the University and District level and even go to the State Meet.

The college computer centre of the college has 10 workstations and imparts training in basic computer skills through an MOU with Rational Computers to augment computer knowledge among students, most of whom are first-generation learners.

The college provides a cafeteria facility. The shade has been erected to serve students and staff members with hygienic food and refreshments at a subsidized cost. This facility has been developed in co-operation with the local community and serves diverse meals for students and staff who come from far.

The college is proud to declare that it houses one of the best Convention Centre of its kind in the New Wing or Kshiti Bhushan Roy Burman Block named after the renowned social activist-cum-former President of the college. Regular seminars and workshops are held in this eighty-seated auditorium. It is an air-conditioned e-enabled ‘smart center’ and has its own LCD projector cum interactive smart board which makes seminars held here exquisite experiences.

The college has 8 laboratories – Botany, Chemistry, Commerce, Food and Nutrition, Geography (2), Physics, and Zoology.

The college has two multipurpose photocopier machines are available on the college premises only.

All the Honours subject-based laboratories in the college as well as the Convention Centre have overhead projectors and are smart classrooms that are e-enabled. Not only do each of the laboratories house separate LCD projectors coupled with laptop/ desktop with internet access and are connected to the servers; in addition, each of these laboratories is equipped with an ‘Interactive Smart Board’ which makes teaching and learning in the college a superior experience.