Raja Peary Mohan College, Hooghly

The Central Library of Raja Peary Mohan College is situated on the 3rd Floor of the old building (accessible by lift and stairs) with a beautiful overview of the Hooghly river and Dakshineswar Temple. There are also Seminar libraries that provide support to the Central Library as each individual department has developed its own repository of books.

There is a well-designed, modern Central Computing Laboratory with advanced audio-visual & multi-media facilities like LCD Projector, Overhead Projector, Smart Board, Laptops & 13 Computers with high configuration hardware of the latest generation. The college has installed LAN with a high configuration server. Installation of eyepiece local area network (LAN) facility provides a fast flow of data across computers, sustains internet connection in departmental computers to browse and download study materials, research papers, etc. The Central Computing Laboratory is also connected with the college LAN which ensures internet connections in all the computers. Qualified and experienced staff maintains the systems & provides technical assistance to the faculty members and students. The computers are also interfaced with LCDs to train and develop PowerPoint presentations for the research papers to be presented in conferences/symposia/workshops. There are separate Departmental Computer Laboratories for Physics, Mathematics & Commerce department.

There is a students’ canteen in the college. Fresh, healthy food, snacks, and tea are supplied to the students at subsidized rates from the Students’ Canteen. As per UGC Guidelines, the College has implemented a ban on junk food in the Student Canteen.

The Centenary Hall is an auditorium with advanced audio-visuals multi-media facilities like LCD Projector, Laptop, etc. The accommodation is unique of its kind in the area with a stage for academic as well as cultural activities. It can accommodate 320 people and is used for academic purposes, conducting Seminars, counseling for admission to Degree Courses, etc. The auditorium is also used by social organizations, schools, library organizations, Cine Club, etc. as a platform to carry out various activities related to the overall cultural upliftment of the community.

The college has a good networking for the alumni association.

There is a gymnasium equipped with modern instruments for the students of the college. Students can use the facility after class hours.

The Botany Laboratory the years are: is quite a well-equipped laboratory under the University of Calcutta. Basic and advanced facilities, available/acquired over a Plant museum, Laboratory with dissecting facilities, Centrifuge, Microscope both Compound and Simple, Camera lucida, Occular micro-meter, Stage micrometer, Overhead projector, Incubator, Microtome for tissue section, Colorimeter, Digital photo-electric Colorimeter, Centrifuge, Pointer eyepiece, Analytical balance, Single pan balance, Digital pan balance, Refrigerator, etc. Recently they have innovatively set up a virtual herbarium with the meticulously preserved species (properly tagged and identified) from their collection.