Infrastructure And Learning Resources Physical Facilities ::

Shri B M Shah Mahavidyalay has the required physical infrastructure and the facilities available for its academic,

co-curricular and extra-curricular activities and sports as detailed below :

§ Principal‟s Office – Well furnished with all required gadgets

§ Administrative and Accounts Office – Spacious, well furnished and computerized

§ Staff Room – Well furnished and with comfortable environment

 Library – library with separate sitting arrangement for students and staff

§ Classrooms – Well maintained classrooms with adequate size for F.Y.B.R.S., S.Y.B.R.S. and T.Y.B.R.S. students

§ Separate classrooms for principal subjects and optional subjects

§ Notice Board – For important information to be circulated among the students

§ College Campus – Surrounded by Playground and Trees

§ Modern Equipment – LCD Projector, TV Set equipped in Bhojanalay, OHP, Cassette Player, Slide projector, Radio-tape, VCD,

     Loudspeakers with amplifier, Camera, Fax

§ Prayer Hall – Big and Well furnished Prayer Hall

§ Movable blackboards

§ Sufficient and comfortable tables, chairs and benches

§ Well maintained Cattle Farm laboratory

§ Agro-economic equipment

§ Agro-engineering equipment

§ Equipment for cattle farm

§ Practical farms for vermin compost plot, trial plot, etc.

§ Water resources and irrigation facilities

§ Computers

§ Well maintained Natural Gas Plant

§ Hygienic toilet blocks and sanitation facilities separately for staff and students.

Some of the infrastructural facilities available for the academic activities are also used for co-curricular activities, LCD Projector, Library with a vast collection of 8655 books, 80 magazines, reading room for 80 students at a time, Notice Board, Central Announcement System, Musical Instruments, Over Head Projector Playground, Pavilion, Natural Gas Plant, health centre, equipment for NSS activities, equipment for projects and our Prayer Hall.

§ Hall for extra-curricular activities like musical evening and different types of celebrations and occasions viz. NSS programmes, gram safai, save girl-child, public awareness and de-addiction programmes, etc.

§ Musical instruments like Harmonium, Tablas, Cassettes and CD player, Microphone System, etc.

§ A vast open sports ground for sports and games like cricket, volleyball, base ball, kho-kho, etc.

§ The Mahavidyalay has the following facilities and rooms detailed below :

The above physical infrastructure is with modest facilities in terms of classrooms, library, laboratories, sports facilities,

principal and administrative offices, hygienic sanitations and sufficient open spaces

The common facilities available with the institution are.

1) Staff quarters are allotted to each and every staff members of the institute.

2) Staff room for teaching staff with the facilities of chairs, cupboards, fans, sanitation, wash basin, mirror, etc.

3) We have a common room.

4) The college has a telephone line connection of BSNL.

5) A separate parking place for staff, student and differently-abled students is identified on the campus.

6) The institution provides free services of health centre for staff and students.

7) The institution provides Grahak Bhandar [Provision store] facilities with hygienic quality of item and subsidized rates.

8) The institution has a common guest house for the all sister concern institutions on the campus.

9) A special facility of STD coin box has been developed on the campus for the students, staff and other visitors of the institution.

10) We have our own tube well for fresh drinking water.

The innovations in respect of infrastructure and learning resources adopted by the institution are : Babubhai M Shah Mahavidyalaya, Zilia 108

 Latest cattle field

 Well equipped library with latest and important books

 Botanical garden

 Agriculture laboratory

 Farm

 Gaushala

 Health museum including charts of agriculture medicine

 Gandhi museum of his rare collections

 Collection of seeds

 Tree plantation and gardens at identified places

 Echo friendly environment

 Group discussion

 Seminars / Conferences / Workshops.

The institution has no formal value added courses, but we conduct a number of activities that help our students develop their life skills. They are:

1. Daily Prayers

2. Quiz

3. Elocution

4. Lectures

5. Debate

6. Report presentation

7. Musical events

8. Project reports

9. Gandhi Week

10. De-addiction

11. Sanitation Padyatras

12. Health awareness programme

13. Educational tours

14. Seminars on the theme “Save the Girl Child”

15. Celebration of various Days like Gandhi Jayanti, Non-violence Day, Book Exhibition, Photo Exhibition, World AIDS Day,

        World Ozone Day, Van Mahotsav, etc.

16. NSS Camps in rural areas conducting Cattle Care, Blood Donation, Tree plantation, etc.

v The management officials reside on the campus as such they take interest and encourages the institute to organize such programmes on the campus on an average once in a month

v Invite eminent personalities

v Takes keen interest for the developments of sports and rural activities

v Rent free residential accommodation

v Medical services free of cost

v Takes keen interest for betterment of the students

v Sports field

v Post office

v Khadi bhandar

v Bank

v Credit society

v Health centre

v Hostel

v Provision store

v Telephone facility with coin box.

Moreover, the management provides financial and infrastructural facilities to carry various activities like camps, educational tours by allowing them to use transport facilities.

Shri B M Mahavidyalaya was established under the banner of Gandhi Ashram Trust and has been working since the 7th September 1964. The institute is affiliated to Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University since 12th June 1984. Hence the academic planning and management of B.R.S. course is done by our faculty members according to the University rules and regulations. The Principal of this college is a member of the Board of Studies. The administration of the institute has been decentralized among

its three departments viz. agronomy, animal husbandry and extension.

our management council. A list of the members is as under:

Our college strictly follows the rules and regulations for recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff laid down by the

 Higher Education Office,  Education Department, Government of Gujarat, Gandhinagar. We have right now the following

staff strength:

As our college is situated in backward and rural area and our curricula is related to rural farm management.

Hence we encourage rural and tribal students to study here. For that;

(i) Our main subjects include Horticulture, Crop Production, Animal Husbandry, Agronomy, Animal Breeding and

Animal Management, Agricultural Chemistry, Farm Planning and Management, Animal Health and Veterinary.

(ii) We have hostel facility for rural and tribal students.

(iii) Free medical treatment for students residing in hostel

We do not have departmental structure in our college. But we have major subject structure in rural faculty.

They are :

I. Agronomy

II. Animal husbandry & Dairy Science

III. Rural extension and Social Reconstruction