WOMEN'S FACILITIESGender-Specific Facilities
The Institute provides the following facilities and support measures for women on campus.
1. Safety and Security
- 24-hour CCTV surveillance covers campus entrances, corridors, classrooms, library, offices, laboratories, hostels, and dining halls. Separate server space is allocated for CCTV recording backups.
- Gate-pass registers are maintained at the entrances of academic buildings and hostels to help prevent unauthorized entry.
- First-aid boxes and fire extinguishers are provided on every floor of college buildings and in laboratories.
- Important contact numbers, including those of the Principal, Heads of Departments, nearby police station, ambulance, and fire station, are displayed at prominent locations.
- Laboratory safety instructions are displayed and students are briefed on safety precautions.
- Awareness programmes on safety, security, and self-defence are organized with SHAKTHI (AP Women Police Team).
2. Counselling
Mentors counsel students, help them understand their strengths and weaknesses, and provide moral support. Psychiatrists or doctors may be invited when students need counselling for personal or health-related concerns.
3. Common Rooms
Furnished common rooms are available for girls to study and spend break hours with friends.
4. Day Care Centre
A day care centre is available on campus to care for young children of women faculty members during working hours.
5. Annual Gender-Sensitization Action Plan
- Entrepreneurial ideas and personality development programmes.
- International Women's Day celebrations.
- Digital banking and cash transactions for women.
- Self-defence and physical fitness programmes.
- Awareness of women's legal rights.
- Programmes on social media and its effects on youth.
- Women's fitness and hygiene, financial awareness, and investment decisions.
- Programmes on women's safety, cybercrime, health issues, and precautionary measures.
- Rallies against violence towards women.