About the Centre

The Computer Centre of Vidyasagar University, established in 1998, plays a pioneer role in disseminating the knowledge in computer and its application among the peoples of different communities in and around the rural areas of west Bengal where the university is situated. It has crossed a number of milestones and continues to increase the activities in new areas of application.

University Campus has been declared as SMART CAMPUS since last year with its excellent and round ICT services being provided through the Computer Centre under the dynamic leadership and innovative ideas form Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor

The centre is maintaining the Campus LAN (Optical Fiber based GBIC) with more than 1200 nodes throughout the campus and providing the Internet Services with 1 GBPS connectivity (through MHRD NME-ICT NKN Project) and a additional link with 100 MBPS connectivity. It provides campus wide Wi-Fi through 263 access points to serve about 3500 PG Students, 250 scholars, 500 staff and several other members. Apart from these, Smart card based attendance & HR Management, Electronic Door, e-enabled classrooms, Campus-wide State of the Art intelligent CCTV Surveillance System, Exclusively deployed Mobiles Apps of the University, IP Telephony system and MM Video conferencing, Participation in NAD, Media Centre for e-content development, digital signage, development of learning management system etc. and many more are the few milestones achieved by our University in last year as a part of the Smart campus Component.

It provides opportunities to learn computer and its application to faculty members, research scholars, students, staff of the University and College by opening a number of training & literacy programmes, organizing seminar, workshops etc. Through these training & literacy programmes, it is also generating part of revenue. To provide industry oriented teaching to the students in one hand and to generate revenue on the other, it has chosen a collaborative approach with the IT companies. The cetre also doing consultancy services for the affiliated colleges and other organizations like development of websites and application software, improvement of ICT infrastructure and policies etc. on payment basis.

As a part of the its social responsibilities in participating in the Digital Action Plan launched by MHRD, Government of India the centre also organises many Outreach Programme / Digital Literacy Program / ICT Literacy Camp in the adopted Villages and in the Jungle Mahal Areas.

The Computer Centre currently working in the following major division to cater the need of the University, Colleges and Society and each of the division is running successfully and has achieved a number of milestones during last few years:

• Maintaining ICT infrastructures and services
• Technological Advancement & New Initiatives - Making Smart University
• Conducting Training /Literacy/Awareness programme for different type of stakeholders
• Project & Consultancy.
• Making Digital Village

Each of the above division is running successfully and has achieved a number of milestones during 2014-19.

University ICT-MIS infrastructure & services currently is managed and maintained by Computer Centre under ICT-MIS Working Committee as per the University "IT Policy"