Infrastrure Facilities

Institute for Social and Economic Change

Infrastructre Faclities

ISEC is located in a sylvan 16-hectare campus at Nagarbhavi, abutting the Bangalore University's 'Jnanabharati' premises on the south-western outskirts of the city. Besides the academic and administrative complex, the hostels for the students and guesthouse for the visiting scholars, the campus has a residential facility for 77 faculty and staff of the Institute. It also has well-equipped seminar halls and a 300-seater auditorium. The Institute's campus is well maintained with sprawling gardens and lawns and a variety of flora and fauna. The Bangalore Urban Arts Commission has judged the Institute's campus as one of the best maintained campuses in the city of Bangalore consistently for three years

Library

The ISEC Library named after Dr. V K R V Rao is one of the major social science resources in India and it serves the students, research scholars, members of the faculty and non- teaching staff of the institute. It functions on all the days of the week (i.e. 10:00 a.m. to 05:00 p.m.). Reprographic and photocopying facilities, E-Journals access service, Internet access service, E-mail service and CD-ROM Journals Databases access service are provided to the Students, Research scholars and Faculty. The Library has a collection of over 1,21,000 documents including Books, Bound Back-Volumes of Journals, Reports, etc. The Library has 250 Theses, 300 current print journals (Foreign Journals 180 and Indian Journals 120) and E-Journals in various subjects have been subscribed for the calendar year 2009. It is recongnised by the World Bank as a depository library and has a donated collection of Bharat Ratna Sir M Visvesvaraya, builder of modern Mysore. It also has an impressive collection of pamphlets and documents from foreign and Indian organisations.

For More Information kindly visit http://www.isec.ac.in/Library

Seminar Hall and Auditorium

The Institute has two well equipped with all the modern facilities and fully air-conditioned seminar halls with a seating capacity of 70 persons. In addition a separate Committee room with seating capacity of 30 persons is available for conducting meetings. And also there is Auditorium of 300 seating capacity is available for organising large conference and workshops.

Guest House

The Guest House is situated inside the campus adjacent to the Administrative Block having a two storied block surrounded by flora and fauna. The accommodation available in the Guest House comprises of four (4) A/c suits, two (2) A/c single rooms and 22 non A/C single rooms. The charges for the rooms are very nominal. The A/c suits are well furnished with satellite TV, refrigerator, seating hall with sofa set and telephone. The single rooms are also well furnished with intercom and TV facility

The Guest House accommodation can be availed for visiting scholars by contacting The Registrar of the Institute well in advance by email: registrar@isec.ac.in or by post. The Guest House is accessible 24 hours.

Mess

The Institute also has mess facility for visiting scholars. The mess is run and maintained by Ph.D Scholars of the Institute wherein one can have a simple and tasty breakfast, lunch and dinner on payment basis, which are nominally charged. One can have the meals along with the students in students’ dining hall. There is a separate dining hall where the food can be arranged for larger groups.

Computing

ISEC is in the process of updating itself to new Information Technology revolution. ISEC has acquired a 2 mbps leased line connectivity from VSNL for Internet access. It has got well-connected Local Area Network catering to about 175 users in the Institute. The ISEC website www.isec.ac.in and E-Mail server are hosted at ISEC itself.

Hardware

The Computer Centre has got two servers, one HP Proliant ML350 with Linux Operating System which works as Web server and E-mail server. and one IBM E-220 with Linux Operating System which works as Intranet Server

The Network Segment contains one cisco 1750 series router and RAD ASM 31 modem for Internet connection. ISEC has also got one 12 port 3com super stack II baseline switch, three 24 port 3com super stack baseline HUB and two 12 port 3com super stackII hubs for internal networking which is connected through cat-5 cables.

ISEC has got 150 Personal Computers of Core 2 Duo, Dual Core & Pentium-IV, based PC's which are installed in individual offices and are connected through Local Area Network. A separate Computer Lab with 10 computers for Ph.D scholars with network and internet, printing and scaning facility has been provided. Library has been provided with 10 computers and a Server with Linux Operating System and Libsys Software for Library Database. In addition, ISEC has also got 25 Laptop Computers for the faculty use and three LCD Projector along with the Laptop Computers for Multimedia projections in the Seminar Rooms.

Each Unit/Departments has been provided with a Laser printer which is accessible through LAN for unit members.

Software

Faculty and students mostly use Microsoft Office for text and Data processing. Statistical Packages like Winrats, Eviews, Microfit OX, SPSSPC+, Definite and Stella are commonly used for Data & Statistical calculations.