faculty and staff. Some hostels have four-seated or triple-seated rooms, while others have doublets and singlets. Mega Hostel is the newest and largest in its capacity. Hostels Boys' Hostels Kailash Boys' Hostel Shivalik Boys' Hostel Dhauladhar Boys' Hostel Vindhyachal Boys' Hostel Neelkanth Boys' Hostel Himadri Hostel Himgiri Hostel Udaygiri Hostel Girls' Hostels Parvati Girls' Hostel Ambika Girls' Hostel Aravali Hostel Manimahesh Girls' Hostel Satpura Hostel Computer Centre Computer Centre is a central facility, which caters to the needs of academic departments. The aim of the centre is to provide professional services, promote and assist the use of new computing technology among the students, staff and administration.The website of NITH, is also maintained by the computer center. Central Library The institute library was set up in 1986 in one room of Government Polytechnic Hamirpur and was shifted to the institute campus in 1988 in Visvesvarya Block. At present it is in a separate building with the floor area of 3200 square meters. The library has more than 100,000 books and numerous scientific journals in both print and electronic format. The reading halls of the library can accommodate around 600 people at a time. Building is facilitated with water coolers, heaters Wi-Fi etc.The library uses OPAC to issue books. Sports NIT Hamirpur provides sports facilities for indoor and outdoor games. Teams are sent out to compete in university-level sports competition. Sports facilities include Karate, cricket, football, lawn tennis, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, badminton and athletics. Annaul sports events such as Lalkar is also celebrated with several events such as relay, shot put, 100m race etc. Inter branch and inter year sports matches such as football and cricket are also held round the year. Health Centre NIT Hacentre. It is equipped with basic medical facilities and in case of emergency, patients are referred to the Zonal Hospital, Hamirpur. Organisation and administration Departments NIT Hamirpur has 15 departments and 2 centres of excellence. The academic departments at NIT Hamirpur include the following Architecture Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering Computer Science and Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering Electronics and Communication Engineering Mechanical Engineering Industrial Engineering Management Humanities Physics Chemistry Energy and Environment Material Science Mathematics and Computing Statistics Centres The two centres of excellence located at NIT Hamirpur are Centre for Excellence in Energy & Environment Centre for Material Science and Engineering Academics Ranking National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur was ranked 99 among engineering colleges by