Indian School of Mines - Campus

Campus

Situated in the heart of the country’s prime coking coal belt, 260 km from Kolkata with a campus spread over 88 hectares (220 acres) the fully residential ISM has all the facilities of a world class academic institute. ISM is located at Dhanbad, on the Howrah-New Delhi Grand Chord Railway route. The serene campus comprises academic buildings, student hostels and 100% residential facilities for faculty and staff apart from other infrastructure facilities for a cosmopolitan community. ISM is expanding and is in the process of acquiring new land near the present campus, which will nearly double its area. The campus is currently home to more than 4000 people: students, faculty, and non academic staff.

The Main Building, also popularly known as the Heritage Building houses the departments of Mining Engineering, Applied Geology, Applied Geophysics and Electrical Engineering. In addition it also contains the Geological Museum. The Penman Auditorium near the main building is used for official functions and events while the Golden Jubilee Lecture Theater is used for workshops, presentations and seminars.

Some unique features at the ISM are the Geological Museum, the Seismic Observatory, a Data Processing Laboratory, the Long Wall Mine gallery and the Remote Sensing Laboratory. The lawn in front of the ISM Main Building, besides being exquisitely designed, has several unique features. It has two distinct areas where the grass and the bushes are cut into the shape of the Old Logo & the Crest of ISM. It has the original cannon used to defend this institute from the advancing Japanese troops during World War 2. It also has two rock samples of the oldest known rock formation on the Indian Subcontinent. The lawn is used to hoist the flag during the Independence & the Republic Day of India. It is also used to host the annual flower show at ISM.

Being a fully residential campus, ISM has 10 hostels - six for boys and four for girls. The hostels at the Indian School of Mines are named after famous gemstones. The hostels are as follows:

• Research Scholar Hostels (1 and 2)
• Diamond Hostel
• Opal Hostel
• Emerald Hostel
• Topaz Hostel
• Sapphire Hostel
• Jasper Hostel
• Amber Hostel (A,B and C)
• Ruby Hostel (girls hostel)
• Shantibhavan Hostel (girls hostel)

The ISM accommodates guests of the School at the Senior Academic Hostel. The Executive Development Center (EDC), under the charge of the training and placement cell at ISM, has the facilities to conduct Pre Placement Talks, Group Discussions, Personal Interviews and has well furnished air conditioned rooms to accommodate executives from the industry.

The Central Library is automated and provides services seven days a week, catering to 3000 users belonging to 15 departments and centers. The library houses 85,000 books, 8000 Ph.D. thesis and dissertations, 35,000 bound volumes of journals and 1200 digital books. The library provides access to 2000 full text scholarly research journals. The library collection is available online through a web-based Public Access Catalogue. Creation of databases for the last 80 years collection was started in 2001 after the purchase of library management software called "LIBSYS". The whole library collection is bar-coded.

The Computer Center supports a campus-wide fiber optic network (ATM backbone switch) with 32 Mbit/s International Internet Gateway. It caters to all the computing needs of the faculty members and the students. The center has a number of state of the art servers and an adequate number of Intel Core PCs. The Health Centre provides medical care to students, teachers, staff and their family members. Important hospitals have also tied up for providing assistance in case of emergencies.

Classes for first year students are held at the state of the art Lecture Hall Complex (LHC). The inside of the LHC functions as an Open Air Theater (OAT). The office of the Dean of Students Welfare (DSW) is located inside the LHC. Currently new LHC is under construction and is scheduled to be completed by the mid 2012.

Currently massive construction activities are ongoing in the ISM campus. A new 8 storied, central library, designed to be one of the best libraries in Asia and the biggest in any Indian university, is under construction and is expected to be ready by the end of 2014. The SAC (Student Activity Center) along with a swimming pool is on the verge of completion. Other on-campus construction activities include the setting up of a new administration block which will host the Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering departments. The Senior Academic Hostel and the Executive Development Center have also been expanded.