Campus
Banasthali University has been a leading institution in the field of women education since
1935. The institution has an area extending to 850 acres having numerous
buildings of different statures and sizes, housing various academic and
administrative blocks. The campus
has been broadly divided into the University division, School division and the
residential blocks and is capable of fulfilling the basic requirements of its
inhabitants.
CAMPUS AMENITIES:
a) Accommodation-
Banasthali
University is a residential institution. There are 22 hostels with a
capacity of housing 110 to
438 students. The network and Internet access has
been extended to all hostels providing the
students unlimited opportunities to unleash the power of the Internet. There are
more than 220 fully equipped
staff quarters of different types ,ranging from one storeyed houses
to multi -storeyed modern apartments and one Working Women’s Hostel
with more
than 80 seats.
b)
Sports
The campus
has quality infrastructure for games and sports programmes. The Laxmi Bai maidan
(26,690 sq. meters) is used for activities such as parade and annual fairs. It
also has a stage and projection room for cultural programmes and
regular film shows. The
Vidula
Maidan
(41,950 sq.
meters) has fields for
games such as hockey, volleyball, basket ball, tennis, yoga, martial arts and
mass physical display activities. In addition, space for indoor games such as
badminton and table tennis is also available. The Swimming pool at the campus is
open for students, staff and their family. Another unique
activity carried on since long is horse riding for which there are 32 Horses and
field called (25,390 sq. meters)
‘Veer
Bala Maidan’.
The infrastructure for games and sports is
continuously upgraded in terms of quality as well facilities. For example very
recently a Cricet Ground has been inaugurated as "Shakuntlam Play Ground" on
January 26, 2008 by the President, Banasthali University. The ground witnessed
South-West Zone inter university women's Criket Tournament organized from
February 9 -19, 2008.
c)
Air Strip
There is a
licensed air strip of 50,191,418 sq. meters in the Banasthali University which is used for
training the students in gliding and flying. This has been one of the activities
introduced as early as 1960 even before
Banasthali got the University
status.
d) Central Library
The
Central Library
of Banasthali
Campus network access
to Internet is provided via
around 8 Mbps Internet is access
provided via different modes such as BSNL leased line, VSNL leased line and VSAT and a Campus wide network having its central
server at the Apaji Institute.
The network and cyber security is
provided by using a gateway filter and antivirus and antispam solutions. The
Network and Internet access have been extended to all hostels housing
postgraduate students where a Computer with network is provided in each room.
This provides the students unlimited opportunities to unleash the power of the
Internet.
e)
FM Radio Station-
A
‘Community
FM Radio Station’
known as ‘Radio
Banasthali’
broadcasts educational and entertainment programmes locally recorded by the
students and staff of Banasthali University. It operates at 90.4 MHz and serves
the campus and the community within a radius of 30 km around the Banasthali University.
f)
Hospital
The
Banasthali University has its own hospital,
“Apaji
Arogya Mandir"
with 60 beds, qualified doctors and other hospital staff. The hospital
works round the clock throughout the year.
g)
Guest House-
Round
the year there are guests in campus on Banasthali university assignments and/or parents and
guardians of the students and visitors who are provided accommodation in the
well- maintained university guest
house. The staff here works on the principle of
ATITHI DEVO BHAVAH.
h)
Transport
Minibuses
are run as shuttle service at the interval of 15 minutes. Bus is also provided
to the Banasthali-Newai Railway station 7 kms. away from the campus. The
Rajasthan Roadways provides regular to and fro bus service between Jaipur and
the campus via Newai almost every hour from 6.00 am to 6.00 pm.
Besides these
facilities, the following amenities are available at the campus:
a.
UCO Bank, Co-operative Bank, SBI ATM
b. Post office with a facility of Speed Post
c. BSNL Electronic Exchange
d. Courier Service
e.
Fully equipped shopping complexes and vegetable marts
f. College canteens
The IT infrastructure at Banasthali
is comparable to any world class university. Apart from the state of the art
Servers and Workstations at Apaji institute of Mathematics & Applied
Computer Technology, every department and office of Banasthali has adequate
computing facilities along with high bandwidth Internet access which is provided
through a fibre optic Campus Network.
The most recent addition of
Artech-Dalmia I.T. Center has increased this IT infrastructure manyfold.
The center has been constructed with partial financial assistance from Shri
M.H. Dalmia and Artech LTD. The center was inuagurated an January 9, 2008 by
Srimant Vasundhara Raje Scindia, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Rajasthan. The
Centre has smart class rooms and high end computing laboratories for
Computer Aided Design, Scientific Computing, Microelectronics & VLSI design,
and Computational Biology.


