AQAR (2024-2025)

Quality Indicator Framework (QIF)

CRITERION IV - INFRASTRUCTURE AND LEARNING RESOURCES

4.1 Physical Facilities (30)

4.1.1 The Institution has adequate infrastructure and physical facilities for teaching- learning. viz., classrooms, laboratories, computing equipment etc. (5)

Lucknow Public College of Professional Studies is located in a well-connected reputed 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.

The College is spread over 2.471 acres (10,000sq.m.) of land. There are two academic blocks-Block A and B having 3697.47sq.m. and 2839.51sq.m construction area respectively.

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.

Conference Room: There is a well-equipped conference room with AC, LCD projector and Internet facility. Conference room has sitting facility of more than 150 people.

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

Library: LPCPS library is known as Swami Vivekanand 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. The circulation of books is based on Bar- Code. The library has a collection of 20,438 books as a book bank facility for the students. The library has e-journal: J-Gate, IBI (Shogdhsindhu), Taxman’s etc. Library has also plagiarism software Turnitin.

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

LPCPS Internet Radio- LPCPS has a well-established radio room which is used for the oral and aural grooming of the students.

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

Counseling Room- The College counseling sessions are being held time to time for student proper grooming and guidance. The specialists’ teachers listen to the students, try to find a way together to solve their problems and give them some advice.

Placement Cell- LPCPS’ placement cell assists students in grooming and providing job opportunities for the students.

 

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4.1.2. The Institution has adequate facilities for cultural activities, sports, games (indoor, outdoor), gymnasium, yoga etc (5)

4.1.2 The Institution has adequate facilities for cultural activities, sports, games (indoor, outdoor), gymnasium, yoga centre etc.

 

The college focuses on overall student development through co-curricular and extracurricular activities. We encourage participation in sports and games to groom leadership, team spirit, and competitiveness. Our facilities include indoor sports like Table-Tennis, Carrom, and Chess, and outdoor sports like Badminton, Basketball, Volleyball, Cricket, Football, Kabaddi, and Athletics. We also support individual sports like Wushu and Swimming, helping students develop essential skills like teamwork and leadership.

Auditorium: The College has a State-of-the-art auditorium, Shri Ram Lal Memorial Auditorium with an area of 796sq.m. This wellfurnished 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 and Meditation sessions are also held in the college.

Cultural activities: Cultural activities are conducted on different occasions like induction, orientation day, farewell, teacher’s day, annual festivals at the end of the academic year.

Clubs-The College has 10 clubs where students have the opportunity to join any of these clubs in pursuit of their interest.

College annual fest ‘XENIUM’ : The College has also successfully conducted international edition of annual fest XENIUM INTERNATIONAL in 2024-2025, where participants of 14 countries who are studying in different colleges in India were invited over here.

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4.1.3. Percentage of classrooms and seminar halls with ICT- enabled facilities such as smart class, LMS, etc. (10)

4.1.4. Average percentage of expenditure, excluding salary for infrastructure augmentation during year(INR in Lakhs) (10)

4.2 Library as a learning Resource (20)

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

LUCKNOW PUBLIC COLLEGE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES

Swami Vivekananda Library

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 23580 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

 

 

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

July-2022-June-2023

KOHA

Fully

19.11.03.000

July-2023-June-2024

KOHA

Fully

19.11.03.000

July-2024-June-2025

KOHA

Fully

19.11.03.000

 

4.2.1. Library is automated using Integrated Library Management System (ILMS) (4)

LUCKNOW PUBLIC COLLEGE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES

Swami Vivekananda Library

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 23580 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

 

 

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

July-2022-June-2023

KOHA

Fully

19.11.03.000

July-2023-June-2024

KOHA

Fully

19.11.03.000

July-2024-June-2025

KOHA

Fully

19.11.03.000

 

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4.2.2. The institution has subscription for the following e-resources 1. e-journals 2. e-ShodhSindhu 3. Shodhganga Membership 4. e-books 5. Databases 6. Remote access to e-resources (6)

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4.2.3. Average annual expenditure for purchase of books/e-books and subscription to journals/e- journals during the year. (INR in Lakhs) (5)

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4.2.4 Percentage per day usage of library by teachers and students (foot falls and login data for online access) Data for the latest completed academic year

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4.3 IT Infrastructure (30)

4.3.1. Institution frequently updates its IT facilities including Wi-Fi (5)

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 five multiple connections. Computers are installed at different places within the College campus (like computer labs, incubation cell, accounts office, administration office, principal office, library, examination cell, faculty rooms etc.).

  • We have a leased line connection of 50 mbps in our college.
  • 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 222 computers exclusively for students.

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4.3.2. Student – Computer ratio (Data for the latest completed academic year) (10)

4.3.2 Student – Computer ratio

(Data for the academic year 2024-2025)

 

No. of Computers (for students)

Total no. of students

222

1376

 

 

                                   Student – Computer ratio is   6 : 1

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4.3.3. Bandwidth of internet connection in the Institution Options: A. ≥50 MBPS B. 30 MBPS – 50 MBPS C. 10 MBPS – 30 MBPS D. 10 MBPS – 05 MBPS E. < 05 MBPS (15)

4.3.3 Bandwidth of Internet connection in the Institution

Options:

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

 

There are 5 Internet connections (broadband) in our college to provide internet facility. Four of these have a connection of 100 MBPS. And one is 50 MBPS leased line connection (2024-2025).

 

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4.4 Maintenance of Campus Infrastructure (20)

4.4.1. Average percentage of expenditure incurred on maintenance of infrastructure (physical and academic support facilities) excluding salary component during the year.(INR in Lakhs) (10)

4.4.2. There are established systems and procedures for maintaining and utilizing physical, academic and support facilities - laboratory, library, sports complex, computers, classrooms etc. (10)

(4.4.2) The college has various committees to maintain the infrastructure of the college: the Maintenance Committee, the Library Committee, the Sports Committee, IT Initiative, and the Website Committee oversee 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 the faculty members, students, and staff once in 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

 A complaints/suggestions 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.

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