Lucknow Public College of Professional Studies is located in a well-connected area of the city at the bank of Kathauta Lake, providing a lush green vast playground for sports activities, swimming pool, well maintained infrastructure, state-of-the-art auditorium and a conference room for seminars and conferences at national and international level, class rooms and well equipped laboratories.

Classrooms: Classrooms are spacious, well ventilated and equipped with LCD projectors screens and podium. The seating capacity of a class room is of 60 students.

Computer Labs: There are three well equipped computer labs with latest configuration of hardware and software.

Library: The library has a collection of Textbooks, Reference and Rare-books, Journals, magazines, e-journal and e-book. The library is using fully automating Integrated Library Management System-KOHA software.

Laboratories: LPCPS provides well-equipped laboratories for its students. Physics and chemistry labs have been built for a better experience and learning process of student.

Conference Hall: The college has well equipped hall with ICT facilities and Audio-Video recording system.

Media Lab - We have BAJMC lab with separate audio, visual and editing rooms for the overall learning and development in media field.

Incubation Room: LPCPS has a well-furnished and well-designed incubation room. All the group activities and discussions take place here.

The college focuses on overall development of the students through participation in co - curricular activities and extra-curricular activities. Sports are encouraged amongst students to groom them with qualities like leadership, team spirit and competitiveness. Ever since the inception of the college, the objective has been to provide holistic experience to the students and hence has taken measures to develop necessary infrastructure to achieve it. 

Sports & Games: The College has well equipped facilities for indoor sports like Table-Tennis, Carrom, and Chess etc. Some of the outdoor sports activities carried out are Badminton, Basketball, Volleyball, Cricket, Football, Kabaddi etc. Individual sports activities like Wushu and swimming are encouraged.

Auditorium: It is extensively used by the students for extra-curricular activities and academic activities. This well-furnished fully equipped and air-conditioned auditorium has a seating capacity of 1500.

Gymnasium: The College has an in-house open gym facility which the faculty and students can avail. The gymnasium has facilities like cycle, abdominal bench, Weights and Dumbbells. Regular Yoga sessions are also held in the college.

Clubs- A club is “a group of students organized with a similar interest for a social, literary, athletic, political, or other common purpose”. Students have the opportunity to join any of these clubs in pursuit of their interest. In total there are 10 clubs functioning in the College.

4.2.1 Library is automated using Integrated Library Management System (ILMS)

The Swami Vivekananda Library is located in the basement of A block building. The library area is 2407.89 Sqf (223.70 Sqm). This library has a seating capacity of approximately 100 students. There are 20438 bar-coded books (maximum), 14 computers with Wi-Fi facilities using and one projector with screen in this library. This library is automated using Integrated Library Management System (ILMS). KOHA, based on cloud service which gives a user-friendly interface for searching resources in the library, along with its positions and availability status. The library has Web – OPAC for providing remote access to its students, faculties and other staff members.

Name of the ILMS Software	KOHA
Nature of automation	Fully
Version	19.11.03.000
Year of automation	2020

KOHA is Multilingual, Multiuser and multitasking software, which not only helps to effectively manage a library but also helps in reducing the overhead cost.

S.NO.	KOHA DESCRIPTION
1-	Students Teachers &Staff Membership Entries
2-	Books Entries
3-	Books Issue & Return
4-	OPAC
5-	View the Reports

Nature of Automation: Fully Automated:-

Version: 19.11

Academic Year	Name of ILMS	Nature of automation (Fully/Partially)	Version
July-2020-June-2021	KOHA	Partially	19.11.03.000
July-2021-June-2022	KOHA	Fully	19.11.03.000

 

The college has always given priority for up-gradation of IT facilities. The college provides continuous and regular Internet access throughout the campus and is Wi-Fi enabled. The college regularly updates the internet connection every year and as of now we have 5 multiple connections. Computers are installed at different places within the College campus (like computer lab, incubation cell, accounts office, administration office, principal office, library, examination cell, faculty rooms etc.).

• We have multiple connections of Wi-Fi separately for students and teachers.
• Since the entire campus is Wi-Fi enabled; all the computers including desktops as well as laptops can access internet facility.

The plans for infrastructural development and up-gradation are given top priority as the College realizes the correlation between adequate infrastructure and effective teaching – learning. The strategies adopted for ensuring adequate infrastructure are as follows:

 

• At the beginning of the academic year, the college administration works for the up-gradation of existing infrastructure after assessment based on the suggestions from Heads of the departments, IT initiative and Website Committee report and lab technicians after reviewing course requirements, computer – student ratio, budget constraints , and also students grievances.

The college provides its students well-furnished computer labs, with 172 computers exclusively for students.

4.3.2 Student – Computer Ratio

(Data for the academic year 2021-2022)

 

No. of Computers (for students)	Total no. of students
172	1571

 

 

Student – Computer ratio is   9:1

Options:

1.  ≥ 50 MBPS
2. 30 – 50 MBPS
3. 10 – 30 MBPS
4. 10 – 5 MBPS
5. < 5 MBPS

 

There are 4 Internet connections (broadband) in our college to provide internet facility. All of these have a connection of 100 MBPS.

(4.4.2) The College has various committees to maintain the infrastructure: the college Maintenance Committee, library committee, Sport committee, IT initiative and website committee that oversees the maintenance of buildings, classrooms, laboratories, etc. The maintenance committee is headed by the office superintendent, who in turn monitors the work of the supervisor at the next level. The Supervisor is accountable to the Office Superintendent and functions as the coordinator who efficiently organizes the workforce, maintaining duty files containing details about their individual floor - wise responsibilities, timings, leave, etc. The maintenance officer conducts periodic checks to ensure the efficiency / working condition of the infrastructure.

 

Feedback

Feedback is collected from faculty members, students, and staff once a semester while visiting the library. The librarian reviews the feedback every semester, and based on the feedback, the librarian takes steps to improve the library procedure in consultation with the principal.

 

 Suggestion Register

 Complaints / suggestion register is kept along with the gate register to record the complaints and suggestions. The I/C reviews the register every semester and necessary corrective action is being taken in consultation with the Principal