Infrastructure

Let us take you on a virtual guided tour of all the amenities you will enjoy when you join Dolphin (PG) Institute of Biomedical & Natural Sciences.

You will enjoy a green, calm and scenic campus, spread out over 16880 square meters, surrounded by an evergreen forest. We take great care and pride in maintaining greenery throughout the campus. Fragrant flowers, grassy green lawns, succulents and shrubs, majestic trees, beautiful vine covered roofs – there is omnipresence of Mother Nature throughout the DIBNS campus.

We are also a solar powered organization. A 100kW solar panel system allows us to generate approximately 70% of all energy used by us and even give back to the grid. Recharge wells to restore the depleting underground water levels, along with; Rain Water Harvesting has enabled us to have a water conservation capacity of up to 60 thousand liters.We also implement a policy for a One-Use-Plastic Free Campus through regular awareness programmes, poster placements and monitoring.

Classrooms and labs are hallowed spaces for any student of science. At Dolphin you get to master your field in state-of-art smart classrooms and labs. All 61 of our classrooms are ICT enabled, comfortably spacious and well lit with both natural and artificial lights, nicely ventilated, and furnished with ample benches, audio/visual projector facilities, and a biometric system for attendance. We also have 6 smart classrooms.Separate labs for all UG & PG programmes account for a total of 33 technologically advanced laboratories – each one employed with the best and newest pieces of equipment to drive forward your practical knowledge. Expert lab assistants, technicians, and the faculty for each lab ensure its smooth running and maintenance.

Our students studying Natural Sciences learn not only in classrooms and labs but also in specialized experiment fields – for practical exposure to natural real-life factors affecting their chosen field.
We have 3 Polyhouses/Greenhouses, 4 Agricultural Fields and 1 Horticulture Orchard – all installed with facilities like drip fertigation and fogging systems to enable higher yields with modern techniques.

We boast one of the best research facilities in the region. Complete with all necessary equipments from autoclave to fluorescent microscope, our research lab also includes modern machines like UV-Spectrometer, Gel Electrophoresis Assembly, Double Distillation Assembly, Laminar Air Flow and Thermal Cycler.

The research and development cell (R.D.C.) headed by the Dean of Research Dr. Versha Parcha manages and encourages all research endeavors conducted in the institute. You will be able to let out the inner scientist and hone your skills with our top research facilities.

From guest lecturers to cultural events, our two auditoriums (AUD 1 – 234 seats and AUD 2 – 175 seats) hold some of the best memories of this institute. Comfortable seating, sound and lighting systems, blackout curtains and projectors all draw attention to the centre stage where talks, debates, seminars, lectures, poetry, dance & music, and even movie screenings capture your attention.

The X mark of an academic’s treasure map often turns out to be a library – a sentiment shared by us. The DIBNS library is the quiet and quaint treasure of our institute. Containing 32,600+ books along with, 60+ scientific journals and magazine subscriptions, this library is definitely one of the largest in Dehradun.

Moreover, there is a fully-fledged digital wing of the library with 10 computer booths to browse the OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) system and INFLIBNET. Every student and faculty member is given an individual log-in ID for INFLIBNET, a subscription that is taken annually by the college for delivering the best e-library for scientific and technical information in India to our students.

Digital literacy is a huge part of education in modern times. Our two computer labs with 60 installed units each (a total of 120 computer systems) ensure that our students can reach great levels of digital literacy.

Our computer lab enables – collaborative academic work & research amongst students, technical training via workshops and tutorials, accessing online courses, extra edge gain through learning skills in programming languages, graphic designing, operating MS Office and much more.

We are immensely pleased to showcase the latest addition of hobby studios for music, dance, arts & crafts, and photography to the DIBNS infrastructure – a place to bring the creatives of our institute together in a space that will harness the creative energy flowing through all of us.

A cozy place to relax amidst the active campus life encourages productivity and efficiency. We also recognize that women-only public spaces help in fostering fellowship, safety and confidence amongst women. Hence, we built a Girl’s Common Room with conversation inducing seating areas, sofas for lounging, and en-suite washroom – keeping with our aim of establishing gender equity to ultimately achieve gender equality.

People with disabilities are often ignored and hindered in normal day-to-day activities by exclusionary architecture, which is an obvious problem. We address this while building and renovating our infrastructure, by ensuring placement of ramps alongside stairs, investing in an elevator, and installing larger bathroom stalls with railings for support in all washrooms.

“Food is fuel”, i.e., a college’s cafeteria is arguably its most important facility. Our cafeteria is central to the fellowship spirit we foster. It can comfortably accommodate 250 people with group seating arrangements to encourage conversations.

All the delicious food offered is made in-house by experienced chefs, following the highest sanitation and hygiene standards. Industry standards for preparing vegetarian and non-vegetarian meals separately are applied by our capable staff – so you never have to worry about cross-contamination.

The menu is also routinely changed and rotated through to include various foods and cuisines to prevent boredom, all food groups are provided in the menu to ensure a balanced diet for all.

We have a fleet of organized transportation services – 6 buses, 7 cars, 1 loading vehicle, 1 ambulance, and 2 water tankers. Managed by an excellent transportation staff of 19 people.

Health is the greatest possession of any human being – keeping that in mind, we continuously strive to give students & staff the best healthcare services available to us.
We have a free on-campus OPD and diagnostic lab for routine medical complaints and check-ups, aided by an affiliated Dr Lal PathLabs centre.
We have a licensed functioning ambulance that operates free of cost 24/7 in case of any medical emergencies.
The physiotherapy department of DIBNS has a free OPD on-campus with exhaustive facilities and instruments. The department also manages 5 off-campus Physiotherapy OPDs/Clinics in Dehradun at nominal costs.
We are also associated with a fully-fledged hospital – Dolphin Jankalyan Multispecialty Hospital – with an excellent portfolio of qualified doctors, nurses and supporting staff, to handle any serious medical concerns.
We also do regular outreach programmes by organizing health drives, including blood donation camps to facilitate outreach programmes and spread awareness with the help of our various paramedical departments.
Students also receive free-of-cost insurance on behalf of the institute for any accidental injuries and cases of death.

Your home away from home. The hostels of DIBNS strive to embody the safety and comfort of home-life for each student..
Accommodation: The outstanding Girls Hostel accommodates 333 residents in a
total of 161 rooms (144 double occupancy rooms & 15 triple occupancy rooms) andthe excellent Boys Hostel accommodated 156 residents in a total of 75 rooms (60 double occupancy rooms & 12 triple occupancy rooms).
Wardens: Girls Hostel has 3 Wardens that lovingly and efficiently look after their residents, and Boys Hostel has 1 Warden that does the same – all wardens stay full time in the hostels. All concerns and difficulties of residents are solved promptly by the wardens, and students are made to feel at ease in their new environments. Parents are also kept in loop about all significant details of their wards, to assure them of their children’s safety and comfort.
Gym and Badminton Court: Both hostels have a fully furnished gym with the best fitness equipments, utilized daily and extensively by the resident students. Both hostels also have a full sized badminton court.
Dining Hall and Water Accessibility: Both hostels also have expansive dining halls, with all the same high standards that the campus cafeteria operated by, all delicious and nutritionally complete meals are made in-house by trained chefs in best hygienic conditions. Girls Hostel has 4 full time mess workers and Boys Hostel has 3 full time mess workers. Students have easy access to water coolers in both hostels.
Safety Measures: Each hostel has employed safety measures for its residents. The hostels are under full CCTV surveillance 24×7, curfew for all residents is at 10:00 p.m., and guards are deployed in 12 hours shifts, to ensure efficient maintenance of safety, around the clock. Any delivery addressed to the hostels is received only before curfew by the student/staff under CCTV surveillance.
Clean and Green: Great care goes in ensuring a clean and green infrastructure of the hostels; hence we have employed gardeners and safaikaramcharis/cleaners as essential workers in both hostels to maintain a standard of living for all residents that work from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Maintenance: Both hostels are facilitated with 1 plumber and 1 electrician each, to take care of any malfunctioning in residential quarters.
Celebrations: Birthdays are celebrated collectively once a month and all religious & national festivals are given special importance by inclusive cultural celebrations in both hostels.
Healthcare: Residents of both hostels have access to full time medical facilities, with a 24×7 ambulance service for any medical emergencies, along with, prompt medical appointments/OPD visits in our affiliated clinics & hospitals (Dr. Sumit Vohra, Prem Nagar / Synergy Hospital, Ballupur / Dolphin Jankalyan Multispecialty Hospital, Karanpur). Residents are also, of course, entitled to utilize all other medical facilities offered by DIBNS.
Additional Facilities in the Girls Hostel – one Open Air Theater (for all outdoors celebrations), a Recreation Room, and a Visitor’s Room, a Library and Study Room, along with, a Tuck Shop.

Dolphin (PG) Institute is a bustling centre for all athletic and sports activities, we firmly believe that sportsmanship is a great addition to a person’s character. As such, we dedicate a lot of our academic calendar to sporting events and competitions at all levels – Interdepartmental, Collegiate, University, Regional, State, and National – and we are proud to boast our students’ constant participation, wins & trophies at these competitions.

Our students are free to enjoy the sports zone of the institute, under monitoring, after college hours (till 8:00 p.m.). regularly – and we can happily say that, a majority of our students do enjoy this freedom extensively.
We organize more than 50 sports competitions in average, every year in Open, Men’s, and Women’s categories.
The sports zone of our college is expansive. We have a full size Basketball Court, Volleyball Field, Kho-Kho ground, Kabbadi ground,
and separate off-campus fields for Football, Cricket and Track.
There is also a dedicated internal space for indoor sports like Table Tennis, Chess, and Carrom.

Easy access to multiple water coolers with safe drinking water
A PNB ATM on-campus (near gate number 2)
Access to photocopy machines for any academic work
Cyber Café – Free Wi-Fi throughout campus
Easy access to hygienically maintained and functioning women’s/men’s washrooms
ERP and e-Governance systems employed efficiently for all workings of DIBNS
24×7 CCTV surveillance of the entire campus
Round the clock employment of minimum 2 guards at all times, changed between shifts.