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Acharya Prafulla Chandra College, Kolkata Infrastructure and Facilities

Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Affiliated to: West Bengal State University
  • Government
  • Estd. 1960
  • UGC
  • Auditorium

  • Badminton Court

  • Basketball Court

  • Cafeteria

  • Classrooms

  • Digital Library

  • Hospital / Medical Facilities

  • Hostel

  • Indoor Games

  • Indoor Gymnasium

  • Labs

  • Library

  • Recreation Room

  • Seminar Halls

  • Table Tennis Court

  • Volleyball Court

  • Wi-Fi Campus

Acharya Prafulla Chandra College, Kolkata (APCCK), is situated on an expansive campus in the semi-urban locale of New Barrackpore. The campus houses a three-storied main building covering 1661.2 square metres per floor, a three-storied vocational and technological block covering 656.1m2 per floor, a two-storied postgraduate studies building, and a canteen building (under construction). The campus is CCTV-surveilled and equipped with a Wi-Fi network, and has made provisions for green power by installing solar panel grids. The APCCK campus includes residential facilities in the form of a girls' hostel accommodating up to 80 students and a boys' hostel for SC/ST/OBC men accommodating up to 80 students.

The APCCK campus houses 22 course-specific state-of-the-art laboratories and an air-conditioned language lab. All lecture theatres, laboratories, and classrooms are equipped with LCD and head projectors and audio systems, and there is also an air-conditioned seminar room. The campus also houses a virtual classroom, established with the financial aid of the Government of West Bengal’s Higher Education Department.

There is also a well-stocked library on-campus spanning 3000 square feet that houses departmental libraries, a 50-student reading room, and an e-learning room with e-learning facilities like digital databases and online books and journals. The traditional library houses a vast array of around 30,000 books, reference books, journals, magazines, and newspapers, while the digital library is a repository for CDs, over 97000 e-books, and more than 6000 e-journals.

Extra-curricular facilities on campus include a gymnasium-cum-auditorium, a newly-constructed basketball court, a recreation room, a playground, sports infrastructure and equipment for volleyball, table tennis, badminton, and indoor games like carrom and chess. There is also an indoor gymnasium which is a 16-station multi-gym.

The campus also houses a two-tier auditorium with a capacity of 750 individuals. Additionally, the campus also boasts developmental works such as the Rabindra Prangan in the main campus which hosts a well-fenced and preserved pond, a picturesque lawn in the anterior part of the college, parking spaces for vehicles, and a variety of trees planted in the medicinal plant garden. There are also campus medical facilities to ensure efficient addressing of medical emergencies.

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