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Brief Information

The Institute of Advanced Computer & Research (IACR) has been established by Rabindranath Educational Trust, Rayagada, a registered Trust with registration No. 22/1998 having been registered at Rayagada on 22^nd August 1999.  The institute has been approved by the All India Council for Technical Education.  On 25^th September 1999 the All India Council permitted the opening of Master in Computer Application (M. C. A) course at the Institute of Advanced Computer & Research, Rayagada.  Being satisfied with the achievements made by the institute, the availability of teaching staff, library books and the required infrastructure, the All India Council has allowed enhancement of intake to 90 students from the academic session 2002-03.  The first batch of students has passed out of the college during the academic session 2001-02.  The second batch are now doing their project work in various industries in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, etc.  Many industries visited this institute for campus selection and some students have been selected in the process.  Berhampur University has already granted affiliation to the college.  However with the establishment of Biju Patnaik University of Technology the college stands affiliated to the said University.

On application the All India Council has permitted the opening of four year engineering course in the institute with effect from the academic session 2001-02. The institute functions from 8:00 AM to 5:15 PM.

Courses Offered

Various courses offered by the institute and their intake capacity is as follows:

The institute has requested the All India Council to permit it to open Civil Engineering and Electrical & Electronics Engineering with 60 seats from the academic session 2003-04 and the order is awaited.

The eligibility criteria for admission to various courses offered in the college are as follows:

Indira Gandhi National Open University has opened a Special Study Centre in the institute to provide facilities for Certificate in Computing (CIC), BCA (Bachelor in Computer Applications) courses.  This benefit is availed by those who cannot join an institution as regular students.  The enrolled students are given coaching by the institute as per IGNOU syllabi by its own teachers.  The course fee, charged by IGNOU, is very nominal and is quite affordable.  A large number of students from Rayagada districts have enrolled for these courses.

Infrastructure

The institute has constructed its own campus on its own land measuring over 20 Acres within Rayagada Municipal area.  The campus is located on a vast expanse of open land with a range of mountains on its background.  It is completely pollution free. A multi-storey Academic Block with more than 20 class rooms, three large sized computer labs with internet facility, conference hall etc, a two-storey Block containing Physics Lab, Chemistry Lab, Mechanical Workshop, Engineering Drawing hall, Electronics Labs, Administrative Block, Library Block have already been constructed with a total plinth area of 90,000 sft. A huge workshop building is also under construction and will be ready within the academic session 2003-04. A VSAT has been installed atop the college building to provide quick and uninterrupted internet facility to the staff and the students of the College.  The college library has about 10,000 volumes of books with multiple copies of textbooks.  Each student is given four books at a time. The Library remains open from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM and students are provided transport facility after the library hours to go back to their places of residence.    There are two girls hostels and four boys hostels at present in the town.  Some more hostels will be opened during the academic session 2003-04.  The College has a fleet of four buses of its own to ferry the students from the town to the college and back.  The college does not charge any transport fees from the students for their travel.  The college has its own deep tube wells as a result of which the entire water requirement of the college is drawn from the said tube well. 

Gardens have been laid out within the campus and within a couple of years the entire campus will be covered with green lawns and plants. 

R&D Activities

As the college is four year old it is too early to undertake research activities.  However, it is in touch with the local government departments and some nearby industries to obtain projects.  The college has sufficient qualified teaching staff including software and hardware engineers to undertake any such project.  The college is also capable of preparing appropriate software for the task.  With this in view the college has opened a Software Development Centre with requisite qualified staff.

The college has been set up with the main object of spreading consciousness of Information Technology and related course in this under developed region.  With that end in view only IT related courses have been opened in the college.  The establishment of this college has provided enough encouragement to the local populace to prepare quite early in their career for admission to these professional and highly technical courses.  Year after year the number of students from the locality has gone up quite considerably.  The college has also been generating enthusiasm for higher studies / debates / seminars in the various branches of study by hosting State level and National level conferences, quiz competitions, mathematics Olympiad etc. The college hosted a national conference on the “Role of Mathematics in Engineering & Technology” on 22-23, February 2003.  The conference was attended by two Vice-Chancellors, one former Vice-Chancellor, Director of NCAOR, Goa and eminent educationist from all parts of the country.  It was a great success.

The college is also arranging similar conferences during the academic session 2003 –04.

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Address: Prajukti Vihar, Rayagada – 765 002 (Orissa), Ph. (06856) – 225850, 225270, 225246                  .

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