The institute is having a dedicated, enthusiastic and highly motivated group of faculty members. More than 85% faculty members are having PhD degree from reputed Institute. The faculty details (department wise) are available in the Institute Website.

The Institute recognizes that a major concern to all students and parents is the availability and quality of accommodation and food. There are separate hostels for boys and girls. There are 20 furnished hostels; 13 for boys, 5 for girls, one Married Scholar Hostel and one for Foreign students . To ensure security in Hostels (Boys/Girls), 24 hour security guards are available.

Most importantly among the  20 hostels, 2 hostels are exclusively for accommodation of B. Tech. 1^st semester students (boys), Capacity: 690. All first year girl students will be accommodated in a single hostel.

Facilities in each room are furnished with cots, study tables, and storage space. Basic amenities are provided  in the form of LCD TV  in common room of each hostel. Sports facilities like Volley ball, table tennis, lawn tennis, cricket, chess board, badminton are available in the hostels.

Scholarship / Assistantship Awarded to the students during 2017-18:

Students of this Institute, are awarded various types of scholarships from various schemes of Central Govt., State Governments, PSUs, Charitable Trusts/ Organizations. Few of them are listed below. Most of the scholarships application forms are online and few of them are hard copy based. Students are to fill all the necessary details for these scholarships  as per the advertisement. Notifications are done widely for students as and when information are received  from various funding agencies by Dean (Students welfare) section.

Apart from the aforesaid Scholarships, guardians of our students also avail reimbursement of educational expenditure from their employers like – BSNL, Railways, & other Govt. / PSUs on our recommendations. 

 The following Sports activities/tournaments were performed/ organized by the students of NIT Silchar under Gymkhana

1. Inter Hostel Night Cricket Tournament.
2. Inter Hostel Basketball Tournament.
3. Inter Hostel Volleyball Tournament.
4. Inter Hostel Kabaddi Tournament.
5. Inter Hostel Tennis Tournament.
6. Inter Hostel Football Tournament.
7. Inter Hostel Badminton Tournament.
8. Inter Hostel Table Tennis Tournament.
9. Inter Hostel Chess Tournament.
10. Inter Hostel Carom Tournament.
11. Open Badminton Tournament.
12. Open Table Tennis Tournament.
13. Open Chess Tournament.
14. Open Carom Tournament.
15. Inter Hostel Athletics meet.
16. .Inter Hostel Arm Wrestling Competition.
17. Open Body Building Competition.
18. Inter-Hostel Cycling Competition
19.  Inter-Hostel Powerlifting Competition
20. Open cricket league
21. Open football league.
22. Interhostel Kho-Kho Tournament
23. Girls Interhostel Volleyball Tournament.

_FIRST EVER MOUNTAINEERING EVENT WAS SUCCESSFULLY CONDUCTED BY THE GYMKHANA UNION BODY OF NIT SILCHAR. IT WAS TREK OF 10 DAYS ON THE ZANSKAR FROZEN RIVER IN LADAKH. One student named Anjan Das represented NIT Silchar in the Trek.

A list of Tournaments and Competitions in which students participated under the Sports Section NIT, Silchar is given below:

1. All India Inter NIT Tournament held at NIT Surathkal in January 2014.
2. All India Inter NIT Tournament held at NIT Trichy in February 2014.
3. State Karate Championship held at Guwahati in the month of March 2013.

1. National Service Scheme ( NSS):

 This is compulsory for every student. As it is known that the primary aim of NSS is Personality Development through social or community services, this year NIT, Silchar, under NSS has organized campaigns like, Green Day, Campus Cleaning, Green March, Clothes donation programme etc. Apart from that Debate and Quiz Competitions were also organized for the students.

2. National Cadet Corp (NCC):

_NCC_ is _engaged in grooming the youth of the country into disciplined and patriotic citizens. Every year NIT, Silchar conducts NCC Annual Training Camp (ATC) for its Cadets. Students attend regular parade sessions for participating on Independence Day and Republic Day march-past

Achievement  of the students of NIT Silchar for various Sports/ Tournaments/ Events/ competition, etc and their success.

            In 2013-14 session 538 nos. of students of NIT Silchar have received many prizes and certificates in different categories of various Intra NITS Sports/ Tournaments/ Events/ competition, etc for their successful participation.

Hostel Facilities

Following are the list of facilities available in the Hostels:

1.      Chair, Table, Bed, Wardrobe, and Fan provided in each room

2.      Round the clock water supply and power supply.

3.      Diesel generator (centrally) available in case failure of power supply.

4.      LAN/ Internet

5.      Wi-Fi connection

6.      Inverter.

7.      Water cooler cum Purifier.

8.      TV Hall with LED TV.

9.      Newspaper and Magazine.

10.  Photocopier (Xerox) in each hostel.

11.  Ambulance service round the clock.

12.  Coffee house provided.

13.  Indoor game like, Table Tennis, carom, chess provided.

14.  LPG connection and fire wood cook house available.

15.  Dining hall with dining Table/chair provided

16.   Fire Extinguisher provided.

17.   Bio Gas plant provided. (Only Hostel – 8)

18.  Bi-cycle stand provided.

19.    Badminton court with lighting arrangement available (Only BH-1 & GH- 2).

20.  Washing Machine provided to the Girls Hostels.

Following are the list of services available in the hostels:

1.      Security service

2.      Cleaning service

3.      Food & catering service

4.      Maintenance of civil, electrical, plumbing & sanitary services.

5.      Maintenance of Aqua guard & cooling cum purifier service.

6.      Hot water for bath during winter.

7.      Managerial service provided for messing & Maintenance

8.      Vehicle service provided for attending classes.

Assistantships (M.Tech / Ph.D): Students admitted in the M.Tech & Ph. D programme in the institute are awarded Assistantship as per norms of MHRD and Institute. To be eligible for this Assistantship, a student must have cleared GATE/NET/UGC exams & must be a regular non-sponsored student.

Railway concession service is also provided to students of NIT Silchar from Dean (SW) Office.

NIT Silchar encourages its students for sports and other activities as well. Students are involved in NCC/NSS/Gyansagar and various other co-curricular activities. They also have a student union body, known as “Gymkhana Union Body”

Information regarding the students’ activities (Gymkhana) under Office of the Dean (SW)

During   2015-16 Session.

A.    General programmes/Annual Festivals

GYMKHANA HELP DESK

ORIENTATION PROGRAM

HINDI DIWAS

ALUMNI MEET

RABINDRANATH TAGORE MEMORIAL DAY

            BLOOD DONATION CAMP

            INCANDESCENCE ’16:

            BANDWAGON