Criterion 4 - Infrastructure and Learning Resources (100)

4.1 Physical Facilities (30)

Metric

No.

4.1.1. Q1M

The institution has adequate facilities infrastructure and physical facilities for

teaching- learning. viz., classrooms, laboratories, computing equipment, etc.

Response:

Sapthagiri College of Engineering provides adequate facilities as per the norms of AICTE

and VTU. Based on the need and requirement, management has positive attitude in

providing and enhancing the infrastructure of the institution.

Various facilities that are provided by the institution are given below:

Classrooms, Laboratories, Computing equipment:

The institution is spread across 6.08 acre campus with lush green landscape with 17449 sq

meters carpet area and is located in the city of Bengaluru which is easily accessible to the

public through Train, Bus and metro transportation.

Class Rooms:

Out of the 51 class rooms, 47 class rooms of all the departments are equipped with ICT

enabled facilities such as LCD Projectors ,smart interactive board and Wi-Fi.

Smart class Room: 4 class rooms out of 51 classrooms are equipped with smart interactive boards, multimedia

facilities, Wi-Fi connectivity and internet access to create smart classroom environment

thereby to focus on e-learning.

Laboratories:

There are 54 Laboratories in the institution and the laboratories are equipped with required

number of laboratory equipments and machines.

Students of all the years are also allowed to carry out mini projects and major projects in

the same laboratories in different timeslots using same lab infrastructure beyond the

working hours.

Seminar Hall:

The institution has 2 seminar halls and these halls are used by different departments for the

purpose of conducting guest lectures, seminars and other departmental activities.

Auditorium:

The institution has got auditorium with a seating capacity of 300 and equipped with

LCD projector, screen and sound system. This auditorium is normally used for

conducting workshops, seminar and other events at college level.

The auditorium in the institution is utilized very systematically by maintaining

record of request and record of permission.

Computing equipment's:

There are 775 Desktop computers, 15 Laptops, 2 Photocopier, 74 Printers, 10 Scanners, 2

Servers, 60 Access points, 65 CC Camera etc., to facilitate computing and internet

browsing.

Internet and WI-FI:

The institution is completely enabled with Wi-Fi facility and the institution has upgraded

its internet speed to 100 mbps leased line internet facility.

Training and Placement facility:

There is a highly function Training and Development and Placement Cell in the College

which is headed by a qualified and experienced full time placement officer. There are four

staff members in the Cell to assist the Head. There are Department level coordinators

identified from each department, who coordinate the activities in sync with the Cell.

Library: Library is fully automated with E-Granthalaya version 3.0 software. This is used for

Circulation, Procurement of books and OPAC.

Library is having 28,689 number of volumes in its inventory along with E-journals and

online E-Resources and these learning resources are made available to the students and

faculty members of the institution.

Hostel:

Sapthagiri College of Engineering provides hostel facilities for both girl students of 166

numbers and boy students of 174 numbers. Both boys and girls hostel are provided with all

necessary facilities.

Girl’s hostel with 62 rooms is situated within the campus and a separate boy’s hostel with

86 numbers of rooms is situated 100 meters from the institution.

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4.1.2.

Q1M The institution has adequate facilities for cultural activities, sports, games (indoor,

outdoor) gymnasium, yoga centre etc.

Response:

Infrastructure for Cultural activities:

The College has adequate facilities for cultural activities:

Amphitheatre:

An open air amphitheatre with green surroundings is available in SCE campus with a

seating capacity for 2500 students to conduct various cultural activities and sports events.

The various instruments that are being used for cultural activities include guitar, drum,

tamathe, mouth organ, sound system etc.

Auditorium in Faraday Block:

The auditorium/Seminar hall is located in Faraday Block with seating capacity for 300

members and is equipped with LCD projector, Internet connectivity, Sound systems,

Projector screen etc.

Sport and Games

The institute provides adequate facilities for ensuring physical education activities so that

physical and psychological well being of student community is ensured.

The physical education section at the institute offers healthy and diverse

opportunities for overall development of student community.

The sports section motivates students to participate in the International, National,

State and University level games.

Students of the institution have frequently participated in the various International,

National, State, University and Intercollege level sports activities and college has

bagged cash prize of one lakhs for its overall achievement during the year 2018-19

at the university level.

The institute has adequate indoor and outdoor play grounds. In addition, the

institution also has Gymnasium and Yoga center.

The following Indoor and Outdoor facilities are available in the Campus.

Indoor facilities:

1.Chess Boards - 7

2.Carrom Boards-4

3.Gymnasium & Yoga Center-1

4.Table Tennis Tables-1

Outdoor facilities:

1.Cricket -1

2.Volley Ball court-1

3. Basket Ball court-1

4.Hand Ball-1

5.6.Throw Ball-1

7.Kabaddi-1

8.Kho-Kho-1

9. Ball Badminton court-1

10.Athletic Track-200 meters

11.Football-1

Gymnasium & Yoga Center: A Gymnasium & Yoga facility is provided with Physical education director looking after

the training activities for both students and staff. From Year 2015 onwards June 21st, the

International Day of Yoga is celebrated every year, in which all the students and staff

participate enthusiastically.

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Indoor games and outdoor games

facilities,sports infrastructure,yoga

teacher employment Order

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Bills of sports infrastructure,

cultural,sports audited statement

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Geotags for Sports and cultural

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4.1.3.

QnM

Percentage of classrooms and seminar halls with ICT - enabled facilities such as

smart class, LMS, etc.

4.1.3.1: Number of classrooms and seminar halls with ICT facilities

Data Requirements: (As per Data Template)

Number of classrooms with LCD facilities

Number of classrooms with Wi-Fi/LAN facilities

Number of smart classrooms

Number of classrooms with LMS facilities

Number of seminar halls with ICT facilities

Formula:

= (51/55)*100=93%

Response: 94%

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Number of classrooms and seminar

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Percentage of Classrooms and

seminar halls with ICT

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Link for Additional

Information(LMS)

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Stock books of projectors,wifi,cc

camera , Installation Certificate of

projector,LCD,wifi, Stock Book

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4.1.4

QnM

Average percentage of expenditure, excluding salary for infrastructure augmentation

during last five years(INR in Lakhs)

4.1.4.1. Expenditure for infrastructure augmentation, excluding salary year wise during

last five years (INR in lakhs)

Data Requirements for last five years: (As per Data Template)

Expenditure for infrastructure augmentation

Total expenditure excluding salary

Formula:

Average percentage = 52.89%

Year 2018 – 19 2017 – 18 2016 – 17 2015 – 16

2014– 15

INR in

Lakhs 698 200 425 356

539

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Details of budget allocation,

excluding salary during the

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last five years

Audited utilization

statements, Expenditure

Details, Balance Sheet

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4.2 Library as a learning Resource (20)

Metric

No.

4.2.1.

Q1M

Library is automated using Integrated Library Management System (ILMS)

Data Requirement for last five years: Upload a description of library with,

Name of ILMS software

Nature of automation (fully or partially)

Version

Year of Automation

Response:

Library and Information Centre:

Sapthagiri College of Engineering Library is fully automated with E-granthalaya

software, version 3.0 (Open Source Software). This is used for Acquisition, cataloguing,

Circulation, Procurement of books, Serial control modules and OPAC. E-granthalaya was

developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC) Government of India, New Delhi. All

the library documents are bar-coded and books are issued to users by reading the barcode

of the document.

Name of the ILMS software : E-granthalaya (Open source)

Nature of automation : Fully Automated

Version : 3.0

Year of Automation : 2013 to till date

Features of e-granthalaya

E-Granthalaya ver 3.0 : Library Software

E-Granthalaya is an absolute user - friendly software.

It is a simplified package, which requires minimum user interaction and features

interactive data handling for storing backup etc.

E-granthalaya is an easy and effective maintenance system for books, members

etc. It contains the best circulation system. The system finds the status of books or

members automatically and allows the circulation process accordingly.

It contains enhanced but simplified search facility and can locate books and

members quickly through OPAC.

Cataloguing module, this helps for catalogue books, articles, serial publications.

SCE ILMS provides statistical analysis required for library management system

such as weekly transitions, most issued items, less issued items, most book

borrowed user etc.,

Acquisition modules is utilized for generating accession register reports, adding

student record, updating item lending policy and its status.

The Library and Information Centre have topography of 724 sq.m area.

Dedicated staff members take care of the issue/ return desk, reading room section,

reference section and digital library.

SC/ST Book Bank Facility:

The Library having book bank facility for SC/ST students, SC/ST student are able to

borrow two books for the semester.

Digital Library: http://192.168.1.222:8080/jspui/

The Library and information Centre having digital Library with following resources.

Previous Year Question papers

E-books

E-magazines

Faculty Notes

Rare books http://192.168.1.222:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4115

Web link for e-grathalaya https://egranthalaya.nic.in/

Delnet: http://164.100.247.30/

Library OPAC : http://192.168.1.102/opac/

Digital repositories of SCE: http://192.168.1.222:8080/jspui/

Library web page: https://sapthagirilibrary.webs.com/

Remote access Gate way for online e-resources subscribed through VTU Consortium:

https://sceb.new.knimbus.com/user#/home

The College Library have books for competitive Exams, personality Development,

Quantitative aptitude, Hand books, Kannada books and spiritual book facility. Separate

stacking racks are maintained for books, magazine and Newspaper. 8 newspapers 7

magazines are subscribed.

Library and Information Centre working hours

Academic Working days : 8.30 a.m to 8.00 p.m

Vacation Period : 8.30 a.m to 4.30 p.m

Titles and Volumes

Total Number of titles : 5734

Total number of volumes : 28689

Screen shots of the same are enclosed.

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Audited Statement, Text book

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4.2.2.

QnM

The institution has subscription for the following e-resources

1. e-journals

2. e-ShodhSindhu

3. Shodhganga Membership

4. e-books

5. Databases

6. Remote access to e-resources

Option:

A. Any 4 or more of the above

B. Any 3 of the above

C. Any 2 of the above

D. Any 1 of the above

E. None of the above

Response:

A. Any 4 or more of the above

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Year wise E-journals, e-

books, databases and

membership

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Screenshots for remote

access, Subscription Details,

Audited Statement and E-

Resource Bills

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4.2.3

Qn M

Average annual expenditure for purchase of books/e-books and subscription to

journals/e-journals during the last five years (INR in lakhs)

4.2.3.1 Annual expenditure of purchase of books/e-books and subscription to journals/e-

journals year wise during last five years (INR in Lakhs)

Data Requirement for last five years: (As per Data Template) Expenditure on the purchase of books/e-books

Expenditure on the purchase of journals/e-journals in ith

year

Year of Expenditure:

Formula:

Where: Expdi= Expenditure in rupees on purchase of books/e-books and subscription to journals/e- journals in ith Year Response: 19.55 Lakhs

Year 2018-19 2017-18 2016-17 2015-16 2014-15

INR in

lakhs 26.5 22.19 18.87 12.54 17.65

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Library Budget,

expenditure, Audited

statement, Accession

Register, and Library

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4.2.4

QnM

Percentage per day usage of Library by Teachers and students (foot falls and login

data for online access )

(Data for the latest completed academic year)

4.2.4.1. Number of teachers and students using library per day over last one year Data Requirement

Upload last page of accession register details

Method of computing per day usage of library

Number of users using library through e-access

Number of physical users accessing library

Formula:

Response: 10 %

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4.3 IT Infrastructures (30)

Metric

No.

4.3.1

Q1M Institution frequently updates its IT facilities including Wi-Fi.

Describe IT facilities including Wi-Fi with date and nature of updation within a maximum

of 500 words

Response:

Sapthagiri College of Engineering yearly upgrades the IT infrastructure by replacing

the old computers and peripherals depending upon the requirements as per the

updation in the VTU Curriculum.

Frequency of Update:

A.Y. 2018-19:

73 new computers of Dell Core i5, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD 8th Generation

computers.

A new computer of type Dell Core i7, 16 GB RAM, 2 TB HDD 7th Generation

purchased.

A.Y. 2017-18:

30 new computers Dell Core i3, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD 6th Generation computers

were purchased and the existing functional Computers were updated successfully.

A new computer of type Dell Core i7, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD 7th Generation

purchased.

A.Y. 2016-17:

44 new computers of Dell i3, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD 6th Generation computers

were purchased.

A new computer of type Dell Core i7, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD 7th Generation

purchased

A.Y. 2015-16:

108 new computers of Dell i3, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD 6th Generation were

purchased. The nonfunctional computers were replaced with new computers.

A.Y. 2014-15:

24 new computers of LENOVA i3, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD computers were

purchased.

35 new computers of Acer i3, 2 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD computers were

purchased. The nonfunctional computers were replaced with new computers.

The total numbers of computers presently available are 775. All these computers are

connected to LAN.

Frequency of Up gradation:

The latest up gradation of the computers in the campus are as follows:

A.Y.2017-18:

On 29-6-2019 Computer in QPDS room is upgraded from 4 GB RAM to 16 GB

RAM

A.Y.2014-15:

Computers in Bioinformatics Lab, Department of Bio-technology were upgraded

from 1 GB RAM to 2 GB RAM.

Computer in Placement Department were upgraded from 1 GB RAM to 2 GB

RAM.

Internet &Wi-Fi:

The augmentation of IT infrastructure is also to keep pace with the changing dynamics of

higher education and the technical world. The IT infra details are made available in the

sapthagiri.org.in website periodically.

The Campus is provided with 100 Mbps broadband high-speed internet and the

leased line provides 100 Mbps speed.

During the A.Y 2015-16 Wi-Fi facility is provided in the campus for the benefit of

the students and the faculty.

In A.Y 2017-18 the Wi-Fi cover is extended to the canteen and other student

support service locations.

The college has more than 81 Wi-Fi hotspots with extenders provided to cover the

wireless range throughout the college.

All computers in the campus are connected to the internet as it is essential for the

students to work, besides surplus Ethernet ports are provided for laptops or need of

internet connectivity.

A separate team with in-house staff is formed to take care of the IT & related needs

of the campus such as Software Development, Hardware & Networking, Website

designing & hosting, Email solutions, SMS solutions, etc.

Extensive use of ICT resources including development and use of computer-aided

teaching/learning materials by its staff and students is ensured in the College.

The sonic Firewall has been deployed for handling enhanced load on network and

applications, catering to academic and administrative processes, thereby providing

a secure campus network.

The college provides advance library web broadband office for the arrangement for

the use of ICT resources.

Internet Provider : Railtel India Pvt ltd

Available band width : 100 Mbps

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Year Wise IT Bills Sample

Laboratory Geotag photos

Audited Statement

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4.3.2.

QnM

Student - Computer ratio (Data for the latest completed academic year)

Number of students : Number of Computers

Data Requirements:

Number of computers in working condition : 771

Total Number of students

Response :4:1

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List of Computers ,Student’s

List, Student Computer Ratio,

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4.3.3.

QnM

Bandwidth of internet connection in the Institution

Options:

A. ≥50 MBPS

B. 30 MBPS – 50 MBPS

C. 10 MBPS – 30 MBPS

D. 10 MBPS – 05 MBPS

E. < 05 MBPS

Data Requirement:

Available internet bandwidth

Response: >=50 MBPS (AVAILABLE 100MBPS)

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Railtel Purchased Order

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4.4 Maintenance of Campus Infrastructure (20)

Metric

No.

4.4.1

QnM

Average percentage of expenditure incurred on maintenance of infrastructure

(physical facilities and academic support facilities) excluding salary component

during the last five years(INR in Lakhs)

4.4.1.1. Expenditure incurred on maintenance of infrastructure (physical facilities and

academic support facilities) excluding salary component year wise during the last five

years (INR in lakhs)

Data Requirement year wise: (As per Data Template in Section B)

Non salary expenditure incurred

Expenditure incurred on maintenance of campus infrastructure

Formula:

Year 2018-19 2017-18 2016-17 2015-16 2014-15

INR in

Lakhs 698.18 200.43 424.7 818 539.44

a. Percentage per year(2014-15)= 539/845 = 63.78%

b. Percentage per year(2015-16) = 818/1145 = 71.44%

c. Percentage per year(2016-17) = 425/783 = 54.27%

d. Percentage per year(2017-18) = 200/809 = 24.72%

e. Percentage per year(2018-19) = 698/ 1118 = 62.4%

Average percentage = 55.33%

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Expenditure incurred on

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Details about assigned budget

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4.4.2

Q1M

There are established systems and procedures for maintaining and utilizing physical,

academic and support facilities - laboratory, library, sports complex, computers,

classrooms etc.

Describe policy details of systems and procedures for maintaining and utilizing physical,

academic and support facilities on the website within a maximum of 1000 words

Response:

Yes, there are many established Systems and procedures. Sapthagiri College of

Engineering has been practicing many established Systems and proceduresfor maintaining

and utilizing physical, academic and support facilities to enhance the quality of teaching

and learning. The institution has formulated a committee known as Campus Maintenance

System where most of the maintenance related works will be discussed and suitable action

is taken to initiate maintenance task.

Utilization of Laboratory:

Laboratory sessions are conducted in accordance with the scheduled as per the

curriculum plan and each lab is conducted under the supervision of assigned

faculty members and instructor.

In each lab, a log book is maintained for utilization of lab infrastructure where

each machine/ instrument used by student is clearly indicated in the log book so

that the proper operation and safety of that equipment is assured. This is how at

most care is taken to monitor and safeguard the equipments.

Before student performing the experiment, lab instructor or the faculty in charge

will explain about the special instructions that are to be followed by the student

in handling the equipment/ instrument in every lab.

Maintenance of Laboratory:

The laboratory equipments are periodically subjected to inspection by a team of

technicians or instructors for their correctness and working conditions. Repair

and replacements of equipments is initiated immediately when there is a break

down. So this is done in order to smooth conduct of experiments. This practice is

common across all the departments.

Cleaning of lab floors, machines, equipments, and instruments etc is taken care

by both attenders and housekeeping workforce to maintain cleanliness in the

laboratories and working premises to safe guard human health and to ensure

durability of equipments.

A separate Stock book register for each lab is maintained and updated in

accordance with procurement and internal transfer. Stock verification and

inspection is carried by the department and institution.

Utilization of library:

Sapthagiri College of Engineering has a committee for library. The purpose

constituting the committee is to initiate regular follows up with the librarian and

takes care of regular monitoring of the library to ensure effective utilization of

library and maintain allreference books, articles, text books, magazines,

competitive examination books, journals, e-books, e-magazines and E-journals.

Maintenance of Library:

Sapthagiri College of Engineering Library periodically conducts a kind of

maintaining old books where books are subjected to reconditioning like providing

new bindings.

Sports complex utilization:

The institute facilitates its students with wonderful sports facilities and required

timeslots for the sports activities.

Physical education director along with one faculty from each department will meet

twice in a semester to discuss sports related issue such as planning, organizing,

events, training, identifying student participants and necessary preparations.

Students are allowed to play and practice after college hours with the prior

permission of the PE teacher.

Sports complex maintenance:

A special care is taken in regular maintaining of the sports equipments for both

indoor games and outdoor sports by sports teacher.

Utilization of Computers:

All the departments in the institution are having computer labs for various

purposes and these laboratories will be allotted to their students in accordance

with the schedule prepared by the particular department as per the curriculum

requirement. Heads of the department along with the time table coordinators are

responsible for preparation of time table. The general practice adopted by SCE

in order to maintain computers in various labs is carried out by the instructor in

charge and system administrators and whenever there is a requirement for

additional systems the request is normally raised by the head of the department

to the management through Principal.

Maintenance of computers:

The department of computer science is responsible for safe guarding the computer

systems and other sensitive equipments such as Projectors, Printers, photo copier

machines, Scanners, servers, Bio-metric machines etc., against power failure and

other related faults, in this direction all the systems are provided with UPS systems

to avoid any damage during power outages.

Classroom utilization:

Classrooms for different classes/sections are identified and allotted as per the

strength of the students

The classroom allocation in accordance with class time table is done by HOD of

that particular department.

Classroom Maintenance:

The podium, black board, benches and windows are cleaned everyday by

housekeeping force.

Campus maintenance system committee meets once in a week and reviews the

maintenance of the class rooms. This committee comprises of at least one member

from each of the department whose responsibility is to identify any problem related

to the infrastructure maintenance of the class room and the issue is discussed and

deliberated in the meeting and finally the issue is conveyed to vice principal to

resolve.

Transportation:

Sapthagiri College of Engineering is very keen in extending the transport facilities

for its students and staff and depending upon the number of students in various

locations of the city and surroundings, the transport in-charge will decide the

routes and operate the buses in accordance with the schedule.

The other most important point that the transport staff are provided with means and

measure in order to take care of the safe and comfortable travel of the staff and

students.

The transport in-charge also responsible for maintains of vehicles and obtains

necessary clearance certificates, insurance, and permits from the concerned

authority.

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SOP, Department

maintenance Bills,

DG-Service Bills,

Non-IT Bills

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