The long awaited New Campus of DCE is near completion. First year classes have already started there. The new campus is in Badli,near Rohini sector 17. The new campus becomes visible from quite a distance with rows of neatly arranged occure yellow buildings and street lamps.
Presently the campus is spread over an area of
163.87 acres. Another 200 acres of land is kept reserved for
future extension. The area is beautifully planned with wide
roads.rows of lights, grand department buildings and lush
greenery spread throughout the campus.
Now DCE is a completely residential institute which houses all
the staff members and the students. The campus has 6 boys and 2
girls hostels to accommodate over 1000 students. Besides,it also
has a beautiful married and transit hostel. The hostels are
befittingly named after eminent Indian scientists like Bhaskara
II, VarhaMihir, Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, Sir Chandra Shekhara
Venkataraman etc.
The campus is a self sufficient mini township with its own water
pumps, proposed power substation(A pioneering concept for any
technical institute),Dairy booths,Post office,bank,super
market,nursery schools for tiny tots of the residents, a 100 bed
modern hospital and beautiful gardens. The college has the best
recreation and sports facilities with separate hockey and
football stadiums, 3 international level swimming pools, a state
of the art gymnasium, multiple squash , lawn tennis and badminton
courts, basket ball grounds and scores of other sports
facilities.
It also has advanced recreational and vocational clubs like fine
arts, music(vocal& instrumental), dance,literature etc.
The medium of education has gone high tech with most advanced
teaching aids. There will be a video library housing video
cassettes of all the lectures given and students will have access
to it round the clock! The college is soon going to have a state
of art computer lab, robotics lab and virtual reality labs fitted
with various other technical labs with the latest and best
equipment.
By Mukul Kumar