Computer Centre
Assam University, Silchar
Year
of Establishment
:1997
Centre Profile: The Computer Centre was
established in March ‘1997 during the 9th ‘Five
year Plan’ as a service centre. The Centre is providing
internet connectivity through fibre optic campus-wide network to
all the academic departments and administrative buildings with a
Bandwidth of 1Gbps OFC link under the NMEICT project of Govt. of
India. Another 10Mbps OFC link is provided for e-journal access
under UGC-Infonet Scheme. The System Administration of Web Server, Mail
Server, DNS Server, and FTP Server are done by the centre. The
centre is also responsible for maintenance of the campus-wide
network, the web server and uploading official documents in the
web server, maintaining the Mail Server and web-mails.
Apart from these, the Computer Centre is running a one year Post Graduate
Diploma in Information Technology (PGDIT) course. It is one of
the 62 Centres in India with Satellite Interactive Terminal
(SIT) “Virtual Classroom” setup under CEC-UGC EDUSAT Network
funded by ISRO,Govt. of India.The Centre organizes Computer
awareness programmers, Computer literacy Courses, Summer/ winter
schools for the teaching and the non-teaching staff of the
University. The faculties of the Computer Centre are involved in
taking P.G. and Integrated Ph.D classes for various departments.
The Computer Centre provides a Central computing facility to the
students, teachers and researchers of the University for their
project, dissertation and research related works.
Satellite
based Distance Learning Learning Program on "Hyperspectral
Remote Sensing"
Courses Offered:
Post
Graduate Diploma in Information Technology
(PGD-IT)
Duration :
Two
Semesters. No. of
seats
:
20
Other
facilities
Technical Staff:
Head
of the Department:
Dr. Angshu Maan
Sen
Telephone:
(03842) 270826