Sir JC Bose School of Engineering, Hooghly Facilities Details: Hostel, Campus, Infrastructure, Library, Canteen

In-Campus Hostels are provided for the Boys admitted into the Institute subject to the availability of seats on the first-come-first-serve basis, giving due preference to those living far from the Institute Campus, however, holding the right of the Institute on the allotment of Hostel seats to students. A student living in the hostel has to strictly abide by the norms laid in the ‘Halls of Residence’, duly displayed in the Hostel.

In-Campus Hostels are provided separately for the Girls admitted into the Institute subject to the availability of seats on the first-come-first-serve basis, giving due preference to those living far from the Institute Campus, however, holding the right of the Institute on the allotment of Hostel seats to students. A student living in the hostel has to strictly abide by the norms laid in the ‘Halls of Residence’, duly displayed in the Hostel.

The Institute has a well equipped Medical Room for first-aid and primary medical treatment to provide medical assistance to only students. In case of emergency, the Institute provides facilities to move the ailing students to nearby Hospitals and Nursing Homes. The cost incurred in the medical treatment is precisely to be borne by students themselves.

The state-of-the-art Library of the Institute is a learning resource center of the Institute that meets the requirements of the students and teachers with respect to the academic programmes and syllabi of WBUT. The Library provides them with modern and technologically advanced amenities with respect to books, journals, E-sources as well as live-coverage of special lectures and seminars.

There are two green tops within the campus of SFGI, one adjacent to Meghnad Saha Hall of Residence and the other adjacent to Kalpana Chawla Hall of Residence. Outdoor games like football, crickets are played on these grounds. The indoor games like chess, table tennis, carrom are played in the common room. Very soon there is a plan to extend the sports facility by developing a volleyball court, a badminton court, and a basketball court.

The college has excellent IT Infrastructure facility for the students.

The Institute Cafeteria provides on payment basis lunch and other refreshments during a stipulated period within the Institute hour. This has proved to be of immense help to both day scholars and Institute Staff including teachers.

The Institute is proud to have built its acoustically designed Auditorium dedicated to Swami Vivekananda coinciding with his 150th Birth Anniversary. The Swami Vivekananda Auditorium located on the third floor of the Institute Main Building with an audience capacity of 300 has the state-of-the-art features (such as false ceiling with a glass-wool pack, followed by Gyp. board fixing; acoustical wall paneling with glass wool isolation with Gyp. board cover; Yamaha Public Address System with all accessories; and Sony O.H. Projector with 2000 ANSI Lumens XGA resolution). The Auditorium has been of great use to us in hosting national and international conferences, orientation sessions of recruiters, inter-institutional debates and scientific meets as well as social and cultural events at SKFGI.

The college has a good networking for the alumni association.

Laboratory introduces students to basic properties of structural materials and behavior of simple structural elements and systems through a series of experiments. Students learn experimental technique, data collection, reduction and analysis, and presentation of results.