Maintenance Policy

Birsa Munda College has a set of established procedures and policies for maintaining and utilizing physical, academic and support facilities - laboratory, library, sports facilities, computers, classrooms etc.

Maintenance of library

For the maintenance of library infrastructure and facilities, the library committee and administration are responsible for purchasing and procuring books, e-journals, and other materials based on recommendations from the college departments. To enrich the library, the committee procures quality publications from both national and international publishers. Teachers and students have access to the library for reading and borrowing books during office hours. The library is facilitated with computer internet access, enhancing research and learning opportunities. We currently use offline library maintenance software and have a proposal for complete digitization of the library in the coming years.

Classroom facilities

The maintenance of classrooms is a regular exercise. The cleanliness of classrooms is ensured by a group of Part-time workers and sweepers. After the admission process in every semester it is ensured that all the classrooms have adequate desks, benches. The fans and electrical appliances are checked wherever requirements are found the purchase committee are appraised of the requirements. The purchase committee makes the purchases after approval from the Principal. There are three projectors one in smart classrooms and rest are moving projectors.

Student support & welfare

In the college campus, there is a good environment for the benefit and welfare of the students. Various sub-committees in the college support services, student welfare, and address their needs. The Principal (Teacher-in-Charge) is the chairperson of all sub-committees. There is a canteen that provides healthy and hygienic food for the students as well as other members of the college. We have a proposal to revamp the canteen in the near future. The college authority campaigns on various health-related aspects like alcoholism, consumption of tobacco, and its effects among students. Internal Complaint Cell, Anti-Ragging Cell, and Grievance Redressal Cell are also formed for the welfare of students. These committees actively communicate and discuss problems faced by the students. SC, ST Cell, Minority Cell, and OBC Cell ensure the welfare of reserved category students in the college. IQAC, in collaboration with the college authority, conducts yoga sessions for students, which is a good step for stress management. Sitting arrangements have been constructed on the campus for students' convenience. The campus also has numerous dustbins to promote healthy practices of cleanliness under the "Swachhata" initiative. The NSS unit maintains social services within and outside the campus. The college website and official Facebook page are used to issue urgent notifications to students. The authority and respective departments observe national and state-level occasions to encourage students to participate, directly or indirectly, in fostering peace, harmony, unity, and development of the nation.

Maintenance of the sport facilities

Sports Committee takes the responsibilities of the maintenances of the sport facilities. The necessary goods and sports articles are purchased by the office of the principal as per the recommendations of the sports committee and the suggestion of the students of the college. The college authority purchases them by calling quotations from the reputed sport outlets. Periodically necessary steps have taken by the authority to develop the sport activities of the students. Every year’s number of events taken place in our college campus playground. Some of the sports items are kept in boys’/girls’ common rooms/ IQAC room and given out for use of students under the monitoring of the Sports Committee Convener. Students with excellence and achievements are supported financially to the extent possible.

Maintenance of Computers & IT facilities

The office of the principal decides about purchasing necessary IT equipments as per recommendations received from the departments of the colleges and the administrative office of the college. IT facilities are maintained by computer skilled personnel of the college and they also take the responsibilities of periodic up-gradations of the IT resources. The IT facilities are taken stock of by the administrations and they are modified or changed whenever necessary. There is a Computer management and IT maintenance cell in the college which looks after the maintenance of the computers and facilities. Few part-time employees are also entrusted with use and maintenance of these facilities.

Academic Support

The college is affiliated to North Bengal University. The college has an elaborate academic support mechanism. All the departments follow the syllabus of North Bengal University for the U.G. Level. An examination committee is appointed by the authority for semester examination and they are engaged in smooth conduction of examination. The authority engaged many part time and guest lecturers in addition to the regular teachers for the benefit of the students. In the admission process the college has followed the Constitutional provisions of reservation as well as rule of the State Government. The students are provided the syllabus, question papers of previous years in the website