Criterion 6 is the most concrete chapter in the SAR: rooms, equipment, network ports, purchase orders. Its evidence is correspondingly literal — area sheets, GeM contract numbers, inspection reports and utilisation registers rather than narrative.
The department's position is that it exceeds the required minimum on every count it can be measured against. AICTE requires two laboratories per year of a course, so six for a three-year diploma; the department has nine. Five classrooms serve the programme. Computing runs to 75 terminals across four computer laboratories on a 200 Mbps campus network with 90 high-speed LAN ports.
The one place the SAR does not claim abundance is technical manpower: a single lab assistant supports all nine laboratories.
The official breakdown for Criterion 6, totalling 100 marks.
| No. | Sub-criterion | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| 6.1 | Availability of adequate, well-equipped classrooms to meet the curriculum requirements | 10 |
| A | Adequacy of number of classrooms | — |
| B | Adequate classroom infrastructure checklist | — |
| 6.2 | Availability of adequate and well-equipped workshops, Laboratories and Technical manpower to meet the curriculum requirements | 40 |
| A | Adequacy | 10 |
| B | Quality of Labs/workshop | 20 |
| C | Technical Manpower support -- Eligible and Adequate | 10 |
| 6.3 | Additional facilities created for improving the quality of learning experience in laboratories | 20 |
| A | Facilities | 10 |
| B | Effective Utilization | 5 |
| C | Relevance to POs/PSOs | 5 |
| 6.4 | Laboratories: Maintenance and overall ambiance | 10 |
| 6.5 | Availability of computing facility in the department | 10 |
| 6.6 | Language lab | 10 |
| Total — Criterion 6 | 100 | |
Five classrooms serve the programme, all in the BADP Building — B007, B011, B108, B109 and B111. Four seat 60 students in 45 m²; B109 seats 90 in 75 m².
Every room has a board, benches, fans, lighting, CWAN wired and wireless connectivity, and a machine available when required. Projection differs: B011 has a fixed projector with screen and a dedicated PC, while the other four use portable projectors with a laptop. All are under CCTV surveillance.
| Room | Seating | Area | Projection | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B007 (ground floor) | 60 | 45 m² | Portable projector, laptop | CWAN wired and wireless |
| B011 (ground floor) | 60 | 45 m² | Fixed projector with screen, PC | CWAN wired and wireless |
| B108 (first floor) | 60 | 45 m² | Portable projector, laptop | CWAN wired and wireless |
| B109 (first floor) | 90 | 75 m² | Portable projector, laptop | CWAN wired and wireless |
| B111 (first floor) | 60 | 45 m² | Portable projector, laptop | CWAN wired and wireless |
SAR Table 6.1.1
Adequacy is argued arithmetically: a three-year course with five available classrooms is stated as adequate, with the rooms in continuous use for lectures, tutorials and other academic activity.
A separate infrastructure checklist is reproduced for each of the five rooms individually, rather than one summary claim covering all of them — so an evaluator can check any single room against its own record.
Forty marks, the largest sub-criterion in Criterion 6, split between adequacy of provision, quality of the laboratories, and the technical staff who support them.
The requirement is two laboratories per year of the course, so six for the three-year diploma. The department has nine — four computer laboratories and five electronics and communication laboratories — and states the adequacy conclusion explicitly against that arithmetic.
The SAR then maps each laboratory to the courses that use it and the semester those courses run in, which is what turns a count of rooms into evidence of curricular coverage: Computer Lab-1 carries Software Practices, VLSI and Renewable Energy; Computer Lab-2 carries Basics of ICT, Microprocessor & Microcontroller and Embedded Systems; Computer Lab-4 carries Programming in C, Android App Development and both project courses; Electronics Lab-1 carries Fundamentals of Electronics, Electronic Circuits & Applications and Linear Integrated Circuits.
Laboratories are also open beyond timetabled hours for project work, which the SAR presents as part of adequacy rather than as a separate concession.
Quality is argued across seven headings: sufficient trainer kits and modern equipment across the nine laboratories; LAN in every computer laboratory; access beyond timetabled hours; a regular procurement cycle keeping equipment current; faculty supervision with students required to maintain records and readings; routine cleaning; and safety provision.
Safety is stated concretely rather than generally — first-aid boxes and fire extinguishers are present in the department, and photographs of the fire extinguishers are included among the laboratory photo sheets.
Each laboratory's basic details and available facilities are tabulated, followed by photographic evidence covering B002, B008, B009, B014, B010, B013, B105 and B106.
The technical manpower table is the one place in Criterion 6 where the record is thin, and the SAR presents it plainly rather than obscuring it: all nine laboratories are supported by a single lab assistant, Mr. V. S. Sama, who holds a BE in Instrumentation & Control Engineering.
Batch sizes are 20 students per set-up in first and second year and 15 in third year, and each laboratory's major equipment — items costing more than ₹30,000 — is listed: computer systems in the four computer laboratories, function generators in Electronics Labs 1 and 3, CRO/DSO and function generator in Electronics Lab-2, PAM-PPM-PWM and mobile trainer kits in Communication Lab-1, and antenna trainer kit and microwave bench in Communication Lab-2.
| Laboratory | Room | Major equipment (> ₹30,000) | Technical staff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Lab-1 to 4 | B002, B008, B009, B014 | Computer systems | Mr. V. S. Sama, Lab Assistant, BE (IC) |
| Electronics Lab-1 | B010 | Function generator | Mr. V. S. Sama |
| Electronics Lab-2 | B013 | CRO/DSO and function generator | Mr. V. S. Sama |
| Electronics Lab-3 | B106 | Function generator | Mr. V. S. Sama |
| Communication Lab-1 | B101 | PAM-PPM-PWM trainer kit, mobile trainer kit | Mr. V. S. Sama |
| Communication Lab-2 | B105 | Antenna trainer kit, microwave bench | Mr. V. S. Sama |
SAR Table 6.2.6. Batch size 20 students per set-up in first and second year, 15 in third year.
Twenty marks on facilities created *beyond* the minimum, and on whether they are actually used and actually relevant to the outcomes.
The facilities claimed are a departmental library run by students themselves, 200 Mbps CWAN connectivity wired and wireless, LAN in all laboratories, and projectors with screens installed in laboratories B008 and B009.
The substantiation is financial and unusually granular. The purchase summary reports ₹18.82 lakh spent before 2022-23 and ₹15.68 lakh across the four assessment years, against a write-off of ₹2.17 lakh, giving a net ₹32.32 lakh of equipment in place. Within the assessment years the pattern is visible: ₹4.32 lakh in 2022-23 on 47 equipment items, ₹1.27 lakh in 2023-24 on 14, ₹7.97 lakh in 2024-25 dominated by ₹6.78 lakh of IT items across 11 purchases, and ₹2.12 lakh in 2025-26 mostly furniture.
Each purchase is traceable through the full procurement chain — expendable register page and serial number, GeM contract number, item description, order date and amount — and the SAR reproduces the complete document set for one representative purchase: order, GeM sanction letter, invoice, inspection report and payment sanction letter.
| Year | Equipment (₹) | IT items (₹) | Items | Furniture (₹) | Total (₹) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | 4,20,432 | 0 | 47 | 11,722 | 4,32,154 |
| 2023-24 | 1,26,938 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 1,26,938 |
| 2024-25 | 74,440 | 6,77,842 | 14 | 44,783 | 7,97,065 |
| 2025-26 | 8,990 | 0 | 1 | 2,02,543 | 2,11,533 |
| Total | 6,30,800 | 6,77,842 | 76 | 2,59,048 | 15,67,690 |
SAR Table 6.3.1. Purchases before 2022-23 total ₹18,81,763; write-offs ₹2,17,434; net total in place ₹32.32 lakh.
Utilisation is evidenced rather than asserted: an equipment utilisation register is maintained to a fixed format for every laboratory, and internet use is monitored and regulated during working hours. The laboratory utilisation report itself is reproduced.
Relevance is demonstrated item by item. For every facility created, the SAR records what it is, why it was created, which laboratories use it, what the student is expected to learn from it, and which POs and PSOs that maps to — so a single trainer kit is traced through to a specific outcome.
The mapping is discriminating rather than blanket. Measurement instruments such as the digital multimeter and LCR meter map to PO1, PO2, PO4, PO5, PO7 and PSO1. Component and breadboard trainers add PO3, because circuit design is involved. The modulation and demodulation trainers — ASK, FSK, PSK, FM — map more narrowly to PO1, PO2, PO4 and PSO1, since they are about signal analysis rather than design. Only the connectors and components set claims both PSOs.
Alongside the equipment, nine categories of additional learning resource are documented: the departmental library, the department Google Drive repository of syllabi, lab manuals, assignments, notes and past question papers, the central library, the ONOS digital platform, the SSIP cell, CWAN connectivity, NPTEL and SWAYAM, laboratory and computing facilities, and the workshop and guest-lecture programme.
Maintenance is split by who does it. Minor repairs are handled internally by the lab assistant and the faculty concerned; major repairs and servicing are outsourced through institutional procedure. Computer laboratories are checked before the start of each semester by the lab in-charge, with minor hardware and software issues resolved departmentally and major work outsourced by the institute on an AMC call basis. Major electrical and civil work goes to the Roads & Buildings department.
Equipment maintenance history cards are maintained per item, and the laboratory utilisation register doubles as the monitoring record.
On ambiance, the SAR lists what a student actually encounters: boards and CWAN connectivity in every laboratory, soft copies of all lab manuals on the shared drive, tables, stools and chairs, effective lighting supplemented by natural light, safety do's and don'ts displayed in each laboratory, first-aid kits and fire extinguishers, and permission to use the laboratories and computer centres outside practical hours for final-year project work.
The department holds 75 computer terminals in total, at a stated ratio of two students per PC. Sixty-five of these are in the four student laboratories — 10 in B002, 22 in B008, 22 in B009 and 11 in B014 — and the remaining 10 are staff machines. The SAR's tables itemise the laboratory terminals only.
All systems run Windows Professional with Microsoft Office plus open-source software and simulators. The network is CWAN wired and wireless at 200 Mbps with 90 high-speed LAN ports. Peripherals comprise two printers, two multifunction printers and three projectors.
Full hardware and software inventory is carried in an annexure, and the SAR lists the courses that use the computer laboratories for practical work — from fundamental computing and programming through circuit design tools, microprocessors, networking, VLSI and emerging technologies.
| Laboratory | Room | Terminals |
|---|---|---|
| Computer Lab-1 | B002 | 10 |
| Computer Lab-2 | B008 | 22 |
| Computer Lab-3 | B009 | 22 |
| Computer Lab-4 | B014 | 11 |
| Student laboratories | 65 | |
| Staff machines | 10 | |
| Total | 75 |
SAR Tables 6.5.1 and 6.5.2, which itemise the laboratory terminals. Student–computer ratio 2:1; CWAN 200 Mbps with 90 high-speed LAN ports.
The language laboratory is a shared institute facility in the New Academic Building, room G008, covering 76.56 m². It holds 30 computer terminals (17 Acer and 13 HCL) with LAN and internet connectivity, 30 headsets with microphones, 30 tables and chairs, and an LCD projector with screen.
Software is open source — Audacity together with online platforms and tools used for language learning and skill development. A separate laboratory register is maintained.
| Facility | Provision |
|---|---|
| Location and area | New Academic Building, Room G008, 76.56 m² |
| Terminals | 30 (17 Acer + 13 HCL) with LAN and internet |
| Audio | 30 headsets with microphone |
| Furniture | 30 computer tables and chairs |
| Projection | 1 LCD projector with screen |
| Software | Audacity and other open-source / online language-learning tools |
| Records | Separate laboratory register maintained |
SAR Table 6.6.1
Criterion 6 runs from page 292 of the SAR. Every figure above is taken from the report; where a figure is not stated in the SAR it is not given here.
