Deen Dayal Upadhyaya is a constituent college of the University of Delhi. The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi established the college in the year 1990 in Karampura. The college receives 100% grant from the Govt. of NCT of Delhi and is recognized under 2 (f) and 12 (b) of the UGC Act.
The campus has the following facilities available in this complex - Parking in basement and also on the surface, Indoor Squash Court & Badminton Court, Facility for Table Tennis, Carrom Board and Gymnasium, An archery range, Boys common room, Girls common room, Medical room, Two seminar rooms, Auditorium, Boys Hostel, Girls Hostel, Guest House, Air conditioned Dining Hall in the Mess of each hostel, Air conditioned Cafeteria, Full Power back up of 1000 KW. The college has twelve well laid-out lecture halls that have seating capacity of 70 each, 36 lecture rooms having capacity of 40-60 and 2 seminar rooms with a capacity of 100-150 each. Each hall also has the latest audio visual teaching aids. The College has three computer laboratories with over 140 computers of the latest configuration and internet facility through the Delhi University optical fiber connection. The laboratories are being fully equipped with the latest multimedia equipment including LCD projectors and will also have facilities for Video-Editing, Image Editing, Animation, Audio-Editing and Authoring Tools. There are three Physics laboratories and three Electronic laboratories which have state-of- the-art equipments to conduct experiments. These laboratories are equipped with CRO's, Function Generators, Micro-processor Kits, Digital Storage Oscilloscopes (Tektronix), Arbitrary Function Generators (Tektronix), Computers, Spectrometers, besides other equipments including: Hall effect set-up, Michelson Interferometer, Laser Kits, Optical fiber kits etc. To conduct experiments in Life Sciences, there are two Museums containing various specimens and models and two laboratories each of Botany and Zoology, well equipped with latest instruments that include Microscopes having 15000 x magnifications. For Chemistry there are three laboratories of which, one is an Analytical Technique Laboratory equipped with instruments like Flame Photometer, UV-Visible Spectrophotometer, Scanning Visible Spectrophotometer.
Computer Centre: The Campus has centrally Air Conditioned Computer Centre on the second floor of C block, with a capacity of about 200 users to promote network based knowledge and learning. The ICT infrastructure consists of a server, desktops and a gigabit fiber backbone which provides 24x7 dedicated Internet connectivity through WLAN (Wi-Fi) and LAN.
Laboratory: Each science department of the college has a Research Laboratory that provides facilities to the faculty to work on research projects. Besides there will be a central common instrumentation facility too. The college has also created an endowment fund of Rs. 3 Cr. out of whose interest research grant from Rs. 1 lac to Rs. 3 Lacs is provided to the faculty to promote research culture in the college.
Auditorium: A state of the art centrally air-conditioned Auditorium with a seating capacity of about 300 is fully equipped with audio-visual facilities.
Library - The college has excellent central library facility spread over three floors with provision for reading room area for the teaching staff and spacious reading hall to accommodate over 250 students. The library has total collection of 42,456 volumes of text-books and reference books. The library subscribes to 68 journals & magazines of national and international repute in all the relevant subject areas. Besides this, the library subscribes to 15 national newspapers. It has 613 bound volumes of journals and 782 CDs in its collection. The library also provides book-bank facility to students belonging to SC/ST/OBC categories and other economically poor and meritorious students of the college. Through the University dedicated fiber-optic link, the library has access through which as many as 50,000 subscribed e-journals and 1,35,000 e-books can be accessed.
Hostel Facility
The institute has separate hostels for Boys and Girls, and provides excellent accommodation to 192 students. The hostels have twin sharing rooms which are well furnished, and have attached bathrooms with hot water supply during winters. All rooms will be furnished with beds, mattresses, study tables, book racks, chairs, cupboards/shelves for each student. The hostel rooms are well ventilated. Round the clock security will be provided. There are separate Students' Messes (intended to be air-conditioned) for boys and girls besides with the cafeteria facility. Recreation Rooms with TV in boys and girls hostels and sports facilities will be available. Hostel accommodation will be given to students on merit basis. There are nine residential flats for the staff.
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