TACT Bhubaneswar - Trident Academy of Creative Technology

The college has three in-campus hostels with a capacity of 1200 inmates. The rooms are spacious, well-furnished, and duly maintained. A mess facility is provided for students. Hygienic vegetarian and non-vegetarian foods are provided to the students at a nominal rate. An incoming telephone facility is provided for the hostel. There is a small library inside the hostel and is attached to a common room with a TV facility. All the hostels have Wi-Fi coverage with a small computer room with an internet connection. The hostel is provided with first aid kits and generic medicines to take care of simple illnesses. A consulting room is available in the hostel. The college vehicle has been engaged to shift the sick to nearby hospitals in case of an emergency. One pharmacist is always there to ensure the medical facilities of students. Furthermore, the hostellers have access to the Central Library on the campus. The hostel is having a recreation hall that acts as a common room for the students with facilities for indoor games. Several newspapers and magazines are subscribed to the hostels. Audiovisual facilities are also provided in the hall through television and audio systems. On the innovative front, Institute is planning to set up a rooftop solar system in hostels to provide warm water, to be used for various purposes.

The college has three in-campus hostels with a capacity of 1200 inmates. The rooms are spacious, well-furnished, and duly maintained. A mess facility is provided for students. Hygienic vegetarian and non-vegetarian foods are provided to the students at a nominal rate. An incoming telephone facility is provided for the hostel. There is a small library inside the hostel and is attached to a common room with a TV facility. All the hostels have Wi-Fi coverage with a small computer room with an internet connection. The hostel is provided with first aid kits and generic medicines to take care of simple illnesses. A consulting room is available in the hostel. The college vehicle has been engaged to shift the sick to nearby hospitals in case of an emergency. One pharmacist is always there to ensure the medical facilities of students. Furthermore, the hostellers have access to the Central Library on the campus. The hostel is having a recreation hall that acts as a common room for the students with facilities for indoor games. Several newspapers and magazines are subscribed to the hostels. Audiovisual facilities are also provided in the hall through television and audio systems. On the innovative front, Institute is planning to set up a rooftop solar system in hostels to provide warm water, to be used for various purposes.

The College has placed a doctor’s chamber on the ground floor of Administrative Block. Twice a week, the College is visited by a medical specialist and a lady doctor to take care of the health issues pertaining to students and staff. The college management recommends a health checkup for all the hostel inmates regularly. In emergency health-related issues, the student is directed to Speciality and Super-Speciality hospitals of the City including KIIMS, Kalinga Hospitals, CARE Hospitals, AYUSH Hospitals, Kar Clinic, etc. The cost of the treatment is borne by the student/parents, but the immediate costs incurred are managed by the college.

The college has a central library with all modern facilities. The library has 17000 book volumes, 274 e-journals, 275 science direct, and 25 IEEE articles. The library also provides an e-learning facility, digital library, reading room, and reference section. All the library operations have been computerized. Computerized Library Management includes search, indexing, issue/return records. Bar-coding of records is common and all book volumes are managed through bar-code readers. An in-house developed Library Management Package manages the indexing, issue, and returns records of books and journals. The library services of the institution are managed through the college intranet e-governance. Through the intranet, the students and faculties can access digital resources from the institution library server. A scaling-up of the services to be accessed through the internet is on in full swing.

The college has sports facilities for all students.

The college is equipped with good computing facilities including State-of-the-art computer laboratories, a campus-wide Local Area Network (LAN), and a wireless network backbone of 130 Mbps (1:1). The college has 200 systems with a computer student ratio of 1:1 with a dedicated internet facility. The college website ‘www.trident.ac.in’ is dynamic and has been designed by the resourceful faculties with in-house maintenance of systems.

The college centralized food court of Trident Group of Institutions providing round-the-clock breakfast, lunch, and other refreshments and dinner. Separate canteen and cafeteria facilities are available for TAT and TACT. Whereas the TAT canteen serves South Indian Snacks and breakfast along with Oriya style lunch, the cafeteria provides dry snacks. The college is situated in the Infocity area. There are many nearby cafes and hanging out places available like Cafe Coffee Day, Barista, and Berrys to name a few.

The college is a central auditorium of 400 capacity for institute level presentation. The college provides chambers and discussion rooms for faculties. The institute has technology-enabled learning spaces. Every department has access to and frequently uses the facility of smart classrooms located in each of the six blocks in order to promote a good teaching-learning environment. There is an innovative practice of learning in all departments. Several events such as technical quiz, GD, paper presentation, software contests, extempore, and mock interviews, etc. are conducted as part of all club activities.

The college has outsourced the transport facility, A dedicated fleet of buses has been provided by the operator and these buses ply in five different routes picking up students from designated bus stops across the city. The present arrangement of routes can be viewed by clicking here.

The college has a good networking for the alumni association.

The college 130Mbps of internet bandwidth available to the campus is ensured through two dedicated leased lines, one connected to Tata Teleservices ISP (20 Mbps) and another to BSNL (110 Mbps). The campus network is connected to these lines through Cyberoam UTM, Cisco 1841 series Router, and Cisco 2960 catalyst switch located in the server room. Since all the computers are connected to the campus network, all of them have access to the internet. As of now, about 1000 PCs on the campus are enabled to access the internet through the wired network infrastructure. A 10G multimode optical-fiber backbone ensures 100% uptime and faster access. The whole TRIDENT computer network is connected through CISCO managed switches featuring CISCO 2960 catalyst at Distribution and CISCO 224G4 switches at the access level. Wi-Fi connectivity has been provided to all the academic blocks, hostels, and free spaces using high-end Motorola AP 6511 for Indoors and Motorola AP 6532 and Motorola AP 6564 for outdoors. After the office hours, the entire internet bandwidth is made use of by students in the hostels.

The college has a guest house/waiting room facilities for visiting faculty and student family members.