bank of Dal Lake. Hazratbal Shrine is at a walkable distance from the institute. The campus consists of academic buildings, student hostels with 100% residential facilities for faculty, staff, and students. The Health Centre provides medical care to students, teachers, staff, and family members. The Central Library is automated and provides services seven days a week, catering to more than 3500 users belonging to 12 departments and centers. The library houses 75,000 books. There are a campus-wide fibre optic and Wi-Fi network, which covers all the departments, teachers' quarters, and students' hostels. There are a central computer lab and computer labs in each Departments. Institute is also part of high speed National Knowledge Network. The Institute provides separate hostels for the male and female students with separate mess facilities. There are also guesthouses available to meet additional temporary housing needs. Halls of residence Indus Boys Hostel (for 1st year B.Tech students). Chenab Boys Hostel (for 2nd year B.Tech students) Tawi Boys Hostel (for Mtech and Ph.D. students) Mansar and Manasbal hostel( For 3rd Year B.Tech Students) Jehlum Boys Hostel (for 4th year B.Tech students) 8-Block Dal Boys' Hostel (For 4th and 3rd-year B.Tech Students) Dal Extension ' Hostel (Renovated) Girls' Hostel (Combined for B.Tech, M.Tech, and Ph.D. girl students) (All Years) For the first three years of Btech, each hostel room is shared by 5 students each while in the 4th year each student is allotted a single room in the Jhelum hostel. The rooms in the Jhelum hostel are allotted on the basis of CGPA(up to the 5th semester). The students who are not able to get a single room in the Jhelum hostel are allotted Dal hostels where the students reside in the ratio of 2 students per room. The M-tech students and Ph.D. scholars are allotted the Tawi hostel during their stay on the campus. In the Tawi hostel, each room is shared by three students. There is a Common Hall, adjacent to the hostels, which provides facilities for indoor games like table-tennis and carom, along with a gymnasium. The Institute has a Maintenance Engineering Centre set up under the Indo-Italian collaboration. The center caters to the maintenance engineering needs of the Institute and the region as a whole in respect of research, consultancy, and academics. Technical festival Techvaganza is the National Level Technical Festival (Tech-Fest) of NIT Srinagar. It usually occurs in the month of April