Physical Infrastructure

Administrative Block

All rooms of faculty and research staff are equipped with computers and a broadband internet facility. The institute has also upgraded its computer centre that is used for data processing and training. The Seminar halls of the Institue are equipped with LCD Overhead Projectors, audio, and video systems. A 45 KVA diesel generator set has been installed to provide backup during power failure.

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Library

The Library is the main resource center of the Institute, providing a conducive environment for learning. It provides excellent facilities to the students and faculty for their research, studies, training, and consultancy activities. The Institute (GIDS) Library is fully automated and works on the LIBSYS system, and online access is available to the faculty and students. The library has a rich database including DELNET, EPW ResearchFoundation time series data, etc. It has some CD-ROM Databases especially of World Bank and the Uttar Pradesh Government publications. Library provides current awareness services which include article indexing and abstracting, book reviews, subject bibliographies, and books on inter-library loan, etc. It subscribes to print copies of 90 Indian and 12 international journals, and a large number of journals are subscribed through JSTOR and EBSCO. The library has enriched itself by adding almost all the good social science books published in India and abroad in the last decade.




Guest House

The Institute is located in a quiet, green, and spacious 4-acre campus in the northern part of Lucknow. The physical infrastructure consists of:

The main office building, which houses the library and the computer centre, a large seminar hall, and a committee room;
The guest house with 8 AC rooms and hostel with ten AC rooms for research scholars; and
Residential quarters for the director, faculty and other staff.




Computer Centre

The Institute's has a dedicated Computer Centre to provide computer facilities with latest data processing and analysis software packages. The conference hall and seminar hall of the Institute is fitted with modern gadgets sound system.