Student Life @ IIT BBS
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IIT Bhubaneswar provides the right ambience for personal and professional growth of the students. It brings out academic brilliance by providing holistic education through various activities.
IIT Bhubaneswar offers wide scope for the students to excel in the domain of sports and games. It focuses on the overall development of the various sports activities. The students play wide variety of sports and games such as Cricket, Football, Badminton, Basketball, Table tennis, Volleyball, Chess, Lawn Tennis, Athletics, and Aquatics etc. Students regularly participate in various intra and inter college completions. Students of IIT Bhubaneswar has already shown their talent in Inter IIT Sports Meets. Being a budding Institute, it has never compromised in providing the facilities required to enhance the students’ talent.
There are three Halls of Residence available to the students for their comfortable stay. The Subarnarekha Hall of Residence (for Girls) and Mahanadi Hall of Residence (for Boys) are single seated hostels having accommodation capacity of 210 and 800 respectively. These two halls of residence are in the Institute’s permanent campus at Argul. Dr. A.N. Khosla Hall of Residence (for Boys) having 70 rooms of 2 seated accommodations situated near the academic campus at Bhubaneswar. The hostels have 24×7 internet facility, gymnasium, common room, and other recreational facilities.
Yoga and Meditation is being conducted on a regular basis in each hostel. Students can also opt it as a credit course. Yoga instructor teaches different kinds of Yoga and meditation to improve both physical and mental wellbeing of the students.
All the hostels have dining facilities for all residents and provide healthy and nutritious food. In addition there are canteens/cafeterias inside the hostel and around.
There is a mini shopping complex in the campus to meet the day to day needs of the community. It renders the facility like medical store, ATM, Ice-Cream parlour, bakery shop, stationary and general store etc.
Well-equipped Gymnasium is available in each hostel for students’ fitness. Gym instructor is also available for guidance and individual’s fitness.
The Socio Cultural Council of IIT Bhubaneswar under Students’ Gymkhana aims at promoting the essence of culture among the students. Throughout the year, the Council puts up a variety of cultural events and workshops, which helps the students in showcasing their artistic and cultural talents. It also helps the students to train themselves in different forms of art and provide opportunities to showcase their talents through different competitive events.
IIT Bhubaneswar provides an opportunity and a platform for students to persevere their hobbies in the field of technology. The technical council under the aegis of Students’ Gymkhana aims at pushing forward the students to think beyond the convention, supports innovation and helps them showcase their talent in various competition like Inter IIT Tech Meet, Tech Fests of other IITs. The students also get an opportunity to attend and organise workshops on software skills, robotics, design & innovation etc.
The Students’ Gymkhana organizes the yearly events namely ALMA FIESTAand WEISSENAIRE. ALMA FIESTA, the socio-cultural fest embraces the cultural prowess filled with an exhilarating atmosphere of endless entertainment. It ensues in the festive spirit and promises to be a new event full of enthusiasm and extravagance. WISSENAIRE, the techno-management fest is a platform to boost the technical proficiency of the budding engineers in India. E-Cell of the Institute organises an annual entrepreneurship summit (E-SUMMIT) to promote entrepreneurship for the students.
There is a Student Counselling Centre who ensures the wellbeing of the students and facilitates the personal, academic, professional and social growth of the students, and equips them with the skills to meet up with the variety of challenges in life. The Counselling Service Team (CST) creates a safe-space for students to discuss their issues & challenges in a secure, confidential and private environment. There is also a professional Student Counsellor who helps in dealing with the mental health issues of the students. Individual counselling is available to students, who may experience a wide range of personal, career and academic issues.
Entrepreneurship Cell (E-Cell) of IIT Bhubaneswar aims at promoting a spirit of entrepreneurship in the academic community of the Institute. Started in 2013 as a student-run organization under the aegis of Institute Gymkhana, it is now a Board-approved body (vide 19th Meeting of the Board of Governors held on 29 October 2015) and is recognized as an important organ to create an Ecosystem for Fostering Entrepreneurship at IIT Bhubaneswar. An important activity of E-Cell is to provide mentorship to the students for initiating startups and to facilitate venture funding. E-Cell conducts workshops for creating awareness on entrepreneurship and encouraging technology incubation. An annual fest ‘E-Summit’ organised by E-Cell provides a wider platform to students for interacting with industrialists, funding agencies, and entrepreneurs.
There is a dedicated team of doctors and staff who look into the health and well being of the students. Medical facility is provided round the clock with emergency care to the students both in the campus and in the hostels. The students requiring tertiary health care are referred to the hospitals at Bhubaneswar city. Ambulances are available 24 x 7 for any emergency. Doctors and Pharmacists are available in the institute dispensary 24 x 7. For Dr. A.N. Khosla Hall of residence Doctors visit to the hostel every day.