Policies

Maintenance personnel for the upkeep of infrastructural facilities are recruited. They are allocated different jobs under the following categories:

Buildings and Infrastructure:

• Maintenance of buildings and related services are undertaken by the Maintenance Department.
• Monitoring of the facilities is carried out regularly by the administrative officer.
• Maintenance Department also looks into the restoration of RO plants including testing of water quality, fixing of LCDs and replacing green and whiteboards when required.
• Broken glass panes of windows in classrooms are replaced periodically.
• Regular Cleaning and mopping work is done by floor attenders. Registers are maintained to record the work.

Electrical Facilities:

• Electricians are available round the clock to address power breakdown.
• Maintenance Department monitors the services of electricians.
• They perform regular checks in classrooms and campus to ensure that all electrical fittings are working in excellent condition.
• Voltage power supply, functioning of generators, multi metres of the campus are called for repairing within warranty or after warranty as per the norms Supply of electricity during power breakdown through generators is provided.

Laboratories:

• Regular checks of equipment are carried out in all the laboratories.
• As per the requirement, minor repairs are carried out by lab assistant/s.
• Major maintenance works are outsourced as per procedures of the institution.
• Necessary accessories and glassware are replaced regularly.
• Calibration and other precision measures of the equipment/instrument is conducted annually by Matrix Calibration Laboratory Equipment and services.

Computers and allied Infrastructure:

• The Department of Computer Science and Information Technology supervise the AMC including Computers and its allied Infrastructure.
• AMC ensures that the suppliers attend to the problems during the Warranty period, and beyond the warranty period, AMC personnel themselves fix the issues reported.
• AMC also handles need-based installation of computer facilities in the college.
• CSE department controls the Internet and biometric security systems.

Other Facilities:

Maintenance Department monitors other facilities:

• All kinds of plumbing issues.
• Regular cleaning to ensure hygiene in the campus and safe toilets
• Supply of raw water to RO treatment plants. RO water is tested by Aurora's Research Lab, Gangotri.
• Routine pest treatment and control services of the campus by local pest control agencies.
• Gardening and watering of plants including lawn laying.
• Maintenance staff consists of Qualified Electricians, Carpenters, Plumbers and other service personnel.
• Major works like gardening are outsourced to professional agencies like Vijaya Durga Devi Nursery.
• Regular spraying of Mosquito repellents is carried out on the campus, including classrooms, labs, seminar halls, playgrounds, etc. and other fumigation works are carried out in the library
• Security is outsourced to professional agency-Sentinel Security Services.
• Institution is well barricaded with boundary wall and security guards placed at all critical locations to guard the campus.
• Professional agencies are by and large outsourced to ensure safety to staff and students.
• Fire extinguisher is outsourced since refilling of the cylinder is done once in a year.