Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Dairy Technology (SGIDT)

INFRASTRUCTURE AND FACILITIES

 Institutional Area:

The SGIDT Patna has a magnificent building comprising of different blocks. These blocks occupy sufficient land area and have sprawling lawn. An auditorium is being constructed separately in the SGIDT campus. In addition, a state-of-the-art building with excellent facilities as per the V^th Deans’ Committee recommendation is on the cards and is likely to be completed within a year or so. An Experimental Milk Plant with ten thousand litres capacity per day is also being set up.

Laboratories

The Institute has a Central Fine Instrument Laboratory in addition to six other laboratories. The existing list of laboratories is as below:

• The Institute has three air-conditioned classrooms with a capacity of 175 seats having audio visual presentation equipment’s and other modern facilities.
• In the same complex two lecture hall with 48 sitting capacity on the first floor having all modern AV facilities and acoustics are also being constructed.
• A new building having complete facility as per the Vth Dean Committee recommendation is in the offing. It will have numerous committee room, seminar room state of the art UG and PG lab etc.

The Existing library of SGIDT, Patna provides outstanding facilities to support teaching and research across various disciplines. The library has aimed to become the informational hub for the students and the staffs of the college to access the National and International journals and periodicals, textbooks and reference books The library has good internet facilities for reference purpose. Besides this, there is a central university library of Bihar Animal Sciences University, Patna having good number of journals, periodicals, books on all the subjects with proper internet facility

ICAR and Govt. of Bihar funded Experiential Dairy Plant (10,000 litres /day capacity) with facilities for processing, product development, quality analysis and packaging of milk and milk products is under construction.

The Institute has a well-equipped computer centre which is connected through LAN for access to internet. Staff rooms and various laboratories have also been provided with internet connection. Faculties, students and staffs use this laboratory for training/ teaching, computation, report preparation and surfing the net for academic purposes. Most of the faculties of the Institute have been connected with the local area network (LAN) of the Institute to have broadband internet access and other services at their desktop. One new Computer language laboratory has also come up in the Institute.

Adequate hostel facilities are available for both boys and girls of UG and PG Programme. The hostel inmates are provided with outdoor and indoor sports facilities. Mess facilities are also available to the boarders.

1. To provide facilities for Training and Student READY Program.
2.  In-plant training to students as per the ICAR V^th Dean’s Committee curriculum.
3. To provide placement opportunities to students in Govt. Organization Federation, consisting of milk unions, Private dairy and Food plants, Multinational Dairy and Food Companies for under Graduate Scholars.

• To develop database of the recruiters in India and abroad
• To liaison between students and recruiting organizations
• To create awareness among students about employment opportunities.
• Proper guidance and training for skill development and Competitive examinations like ARS/SRF/JRF/Civil services etc. to the students.
• Proper guidance to students for self employment and setting up small scale industries or Dairy Farming.

• Stipends are generally provided by the organizations imparting training to students.
• ICAR has made a provision to provide stipend for one semester at the rate of Rs. 3000/ per month to those students who do not received stipend from industries