Fakir Mohan Autonomous College, Balasore Facilities Details: Hostel, Campus, Infrastructure, Library, Canteen

The College has a Boy's Hostel within its campus to accommodate students who come from different parts of the State. The Hostel has a separate dining hall, common room, and washroom area within the hostel. The rooms are furnished. The Mess is operated twice a day lunch and dinner. Wi-Fi facility is also available in the Hostel. Laundry services are separately provided within the campus for residents.

The College also has a Girl's Hostel within its campus to accommodate students who come from different parts of the State. The hostel has a separate dining hall, common room, and washroom area within the hostel. The rooms are furnished. The mess is operated twice a day for lunch and dinner. Wi-Fi facility is also available in the hostel. Laundry services are separately provided within the campus for residents.

The college has a health center with a first aid facility for the students.

The College maintains its own fitness center. It is located inside the multipurpose hall in the sports complex possessing equipment for free weight exercises, bodyweight exercises, gym ball exercises / Swiss ball exercises, resistance band exercises, resistance machine exercises, and stretching exercises. The Gym also holds classes for kickboxing, yoga, and aerobics: 1. Weight training section: This section comprises Olympic weightlifting weights, exercise stations, Swiss balls etc. 2. Cardio section: It consists of treadmills, elliptical trainer, cycles etc.

The college has a library facility for all students.

The College has a track record of excellence in the field of various sports and athletics. Very recently, the playground was renovated at a cost of 70 lakhs. The playground has inner sewage for drainage of rainwater. Around the lush green playground, there is a pavement for the provision of jogging. Outdoor games, viz. Football, Volleyball, Cricket, and athletics competitions are regularly conducted here. On one side of the field, there is a basketball court and a multigym. There is also another indoor court for badminton. College Common Room has provisions for Table Tennis, Chess, and carp.

The College Computer Lab is equipped with 20 computer systems with headphones and language software from various agencies. The Language lab has a classroom with Digital facilities annexed to it for the practice of communicative skills.

Extensively used by the students for extra-curricular activities and for hosting functions of the College. The Auditorium with provision for Balcony seats and a green room. The college has a seating capacity of about 300 people. It has an advanced light and sound system that is managed by specially designated support staff along with the students.

The college has a guest house/waiting room facility for visiting faculty and student family members.

The college has a departmental-based laboratories facility for the students.

The College Canteen is a popular meeting place for students over Tea, Coffee, light snacks, and cold drinks. Proper care and monitoring are carried out to ensure the quality and hygiene of the items served, as well as the moderation of prices. The College canteen has a seating capacity of fifty people.

The College has annexed a building to the main campus wherein the State Bank of India (SBI) has a branch office on rent. This provides vital banking facilities to the Institutions, staff members as well and students. The branch is also open to public service. It functions six days a week from 9.00 am to 4.00 pm. Alongside the College branch of State Bank of India is installed an ATM counter having two teller machines for easy and speedy withdrawal.

The College campus is fully Wi-Fi enabled which can be accessed by students and staff members in the academic block, tutorial block, corridors, open areas, hostels, and sports complex. Users are provided secure access with a login ID and password for using the Wi-Fi facility through laptops. The Wi-Fi facility is available in the Digital library, office, and NAAC room. The leased line of bandwidth-2 MBPS was installed recently to update the IT facilities of the college. The students and the teachers can make use of these facilities during working hours under the supervision of the faculty concerned, and get updated in their technical ability which is the need of the hour.

The College has an in-house stationery shop being run by the Cooperative society. The shop provides notebooks, pens, and utility products for everyday use by the students. The shop remains open on all working days during College hours. The College has also outsourced a photocopier outlet to provide photocopy, printing, and binding facilities to its students and staff. This outlet also remains open on all working days during College hours. The college houses one sub-post office, on its campus, which provides valuable postal and banking services to both staff and students of the college. The post office functions from a strategic frontal location so as to cater to the college as well as the public. Working hours are from 9.30 hrs to 17.00 hrs on all working days.

The College has a separate parking lot on the campus, near the main gate for students and staff. For regulating entry with disciplined parking dedicated security personnel have been employed.