The Computer Centre is a central facility of the University which caters to the various needs of the students, research scholars, faculty / scientist and staff members of the university. The Computer Centre has two components namely Agricultural Research Information System (ARIS) Cell and Computer Labs. Apart from these, it also consists of Class Room and Conference Room. ARIS Cell and Computer Labs are well equipped with state-of-the-art hardware and software. The departments of different faculties, RAC Library, Central Library, Administrative Building and Faculty of Forestry are connected through LAN with a bandwidth of 256 kbps. The Centre maintains all the activities related to computer, internet, networking, and software and hardware maintenance of different units of the University to boost up academic, research and extension programme.

Infrastructure available at Computer Centre:

Staff Position in Computer Centre :

Services

Academic Programme

v     There are two labs in the Computer Centre.

v     One Lab is exclusively for Internet and research purposes for UG / PG/ Research Scholars and staff of the university and also for practical classes of students of B. Sc (Ag.) and B. Sc. (Forestry).

v     One lab is meant for Internet and research purposes for faculty/ scientist of the University.

v     The Centre gives technical support to users as and when required.

Internet / Networking Facility

v     The Centre has SCPC link @256 kbps bandwidth from ERNET India.

v     The ARIS cell provides connectivity to the faculty members / scientists and other staff through VSAT with high speed Optical Fiber Cable backbone and UTP cabling for individual nodes and Wireless LAN has also been set-up to extend the LAN connectivity to the Administrative complex and Faculty of Forestry.

v     All systems of the Centre are linked by a Local Area Network and the Centre provides internet facility to the students, research scholars, faculty, teachers, scientists and staff of the university.

v     The Centre has extended Internet facility to the various Departments and units of the University for more than 40 Nodes and Computer Centre staff maintains the Internet and Networking facility itself.

v     e-Journals facility is also available in the centre  under Consortium for e-Resources in Agriculture (CeRA) Project under NAIP Programme.

University Website  

v     Birsa Agricultural University website developed by the Centre was launched by Hon'ble Vice-Chancellor of the University in 2005 and the website is maintained and continuously updated with latest information as and when required. 

Hardware Maintenance

v     The Centre provides on-site maintenance of systems and peripherals apart from network connectivity problems to different departments / units of the university.

Training programme

Training is one of the main activities of the Centre. The Centre time to time organizes training programme on Computer Application for the employees / students of the university.