and Mass Blood Donation. PUC Unit has won Indira Gandhi NSS Awards two times, in 1994–1995 and in 2015–2016. In the 2015–2016 Indira Gandhi NSS Awards, Zoramdinthara received the Programme Officer Award, and Chawnghlunchhungi received the Volunteers Award. It organises blood donation camps for which the college had been the record holder under the Government of Mizoram as the most blood donor since 1998. Campus and infrastructure PUC campus is situated at the eastern side of Aizawl, and covers 138 acres of land. As the only verdant forest reserve within the capital city of Mizoram, Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla once remarked it as the "lung of the city." There are five academic buildings, one central library, seven staff quarters, health clinic, counseling centre, NSS/Students' Union Office, power generator room, ring well, basketball court, volleyball court, and seismological observatory. In addition to classrooms and departmental rooms, Academic Block 1 consists of Student's Recreation Centre and Internet Resource Centre. Academic Block 2 consists of a workshop/maintenance cell. The basement of Academic Block 3 is Language Lab. Science Building consists of IGNOU Centre 1923. Seminar Hall lies adjacent to Science Building and Life Science Building, and the basement is a cafeteria. Research and Instrumentation Centre, Zoological Museum, and Advanced Biotech Hub are at located within Life Science Building. The administrative building consists of Principal's chamber, establishment cell, finance cell, faculty common room and departmental offices. Multipurpose Auditorium is located at the entrance of the playground. It consists of badminton court. The playground is standard football pitch size, surrounded by concrete pavilion. There are two girls' hostels each having 190 capacity, and two boys' hostel, each with 178 boarders. A free-access Internet Resource Centre, the first of its kind in Mizoram, was established under NER FIST of the Department of Science and Technology. All offices and departmental rooms are linked with internet connectivity through broadband service. All classrooms and laboratories are furnished with fixed LCD projection system since 2012. Library The college library was set up as a separate department in 1960. By the end of the 1970s, it had the best collection of books in northeast India. In the midst of the political and social agitation in Mizoram (the Mizo National Front uprising), the original library, along with five high schools in Aizawl, was completely burnt down on 4 November 1981. Over 25,000 collections were lost. The second library was built in 1984