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Infrastructure
The aesthetically landscaped campus with sprawling
beautiful lawns, colourful annuals and captivating
perennials create an unique ambience of serenity
for the pursuit of education and personal growth.
It has an academic block comprising classrooms,
faculty rooms, conference halls, library and computer
centre. The airconditioned classrooms and conference
halls are equipped with the latest AV equipment
to create a comfortable learning atmosphere. The
centrally aircooled hostels have arrangements
for hygienic, cosmopolitan food. A video channel
is available every evening on the TV to provide
enrichment of classroom inputs on a wide variety
of relevant themes, besides being a source of
recreational pass-time.
The Cyberary
Yet another center of learning, apart from the
classroom is the Cyberary, which has a collection
of 170 Indian and foreign journals, with new ones
being added continuously. Besides the above, approximately
100 newsletters, newspapers and conference proceedings
are also received regularly. Access to the library
resources is available on the internet through
the LIBSYS software. The paperless collection
includes 300 videocassettes and 500 CDROM's (on
management and related areas). Important databases
include TROPAG & RURAL, AGRIS, AGRICOLA, and
CABSAC databases including CMIE databases, Prowess,
India Trades, Exim and IBID are also subscribed
for obtaining the latest on the Indian economy,
the corporate world and export import scenario.
The Cyberary has full connectivity with Internet
having multiuser capability. Information dissemination
services offered
by the institute include access to the library
database, literature search, bibliographies and
reprographic services.
Publications
MANAGE also publishes several periodicals and
occasional literature. The bi-monthly MANAGE Bulletin
presents a picture of the extension scene and
current developments in Agriculture. 'The Spice'
is a bi-monthly newsletter of PGPABM. The institute
has a co-publishing arrangement with Overseas
Development Institute, UK for bringing out the
Indian edition of Natural Resources Perspective
Series. The monthly 'WTO and Agriculture' focuses
on the impact of WTO on Indian agriculture. Various
publications have been brought out which include
the Strategic Research and Extension Plans for
IT districts under the World Bank funded NATP
Project, Private Extension in Indian- Agricultural
Marketing, Floriculture, Fertilizers and Product
Guide, Farmers Participation in Agricultural Research
and Extension Systems, Distance Learning material
for farmers in several frontier areas of agricultural
technology, publications on the Participatory
Adaptive Research Project and Participatory Watershed
Projects.
Video Conferencing
The Cyberary is equipped with a Video Conferencing
Unit. The video conferencing facility can be used
to connect with more than 25 state-wide institutions/universities
in India.
Information Technology Centre
MANAGE recognises the catalytic role of information
technology in improving the efficacy and efficiency
of managers marching into the 21st century. This
is the reason behind establishing a 'state of
the art' information technology centre. A Local
Area Network (LAN) connects about 200 nodes with
latest Pentium processors to cater to the need
of faculty, students, staff and participants.
An exclusive computer lab for PG students established
with high end H/W and different Softwares exclusively
for their need as per demand of the curriculum.
Two 64 kbps leased line, exist in MANAGE for internet
and data transfer with the outside world. The
IT centre works 24 hours a day, throughout the
entire year, for users providing different facilities.
The MANAGE website is hosted as www.manage.gov.in
with daily updates. Lotus R5 domino based messaging
system for intranet as well as roaming facility
on internet is provided for each faculty, staff
and students to update themselves about the organization
and other issues wherever they exist. The IT Centre
maintains the state of the art teleconferencing
as well as V-Sat based and ISDN based video conferencing
facilities to cater to the needs of all at MANAGE.
With all these facilities, MANAGE has become a
role model for practicing and implementing Cyber
Extension in India. And in the near future, the
institute intends to become a paperless organization.
Recreation and Health centre
To relax after the rigorous course inputs, adequate
recreation facilities are available in the campus.
Outdoor games like Tennis and Badminton, have
courts of synthetic turf, while facilities are
provided for Swimming, Squash, Table Tennis, Snooker,
Carrom, Chess and work outs at the Gymnasium are
avenues which students utilise for their mental
and physical build up. The health care centre
is equipped with out-door patient treatment facilities
for the resident staff, visiting participants
and students. Regular arrangements also exist
with prominent advanced centres of treatment in
case of need for advanced or in-patient treatment.
Professional Activities
The range of our professional services/activities
include Management Education with a two year PG
Programme in Agri-Business Management, Training
and Consultancy to public and private sector institutes
and functionaries at senior level, Industry-Institute
interface on contemporary issues, sponsored research
studies, International training programmes sponsored
by UNOPS, FAO, DFID, World Bank etc. and information
technology based services.
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