| University of Jammu | |
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| जम्मू विश्वविद्यालय | |
| Motto | तमसो मा ज्योर्तिगमय |
| Established | 1969 |
| Type | Public |
| Vice-Chancellor | Prof. Varun sahni |
| Location | Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India |
| Affiliations | UGC |
| Website | www.jammuuniversity.in |
The University of Jammu was established in 1969 by an Act of the State Legislature which effectively bifurcated the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir University into the Universities of Jammu and Kashmir respectively. The University is at present located on the banks of the Tawi River. The university offers undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programs; it confers honorary degrees to persons of exceptional calibre. It also affiliates and recognizes colleges. More recently, the University has set up satellite campuses in Bhaderwah, Kathua and Poonch with an accent on vocational courses. Of these campuses, the Bhaderwah Campus at Sungli village is the first to have been formally inaugurated (by H.E. The President of India, Smt Pratibha Devisingh Patil).
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It is the first university in India to receive the ISO-9001 certification.
Hospitality & Tourism, Chemistry Department, Physics & Elect. Department, Environmental Sciences Department, Home Science Department, Bio-Technology Department, Computer Science Department, Management Department(The Business School), Zoology Department, Botany Department, Geology Department, Geography Department, Mathematics Department, Education Department, Law Department, Library Science Department, Urdu Department, Punjabi Department, Statistics Department, Dogri Department, Buddhist Department, Hindi Department, English Department, Sociology Department, Political Science Department, History Department, Economics Department, Commerce Department, Sanskrit Department, Psychology Department and Bio-Chemistry Department.
The university has a well equipped central library that caters the needs of the students of the university as well as others. The library has over 350,000 books and electronic media collection as well. Recently the university library has been renamed as Dhanvantri Library.
The IT Facility are also provided with the aim to support the university's learning, teaching, and research activities. University has acquired VSAT and optical fiber connectivity with bandwidth of 10 kpbs and 2 kbit/s each total 12 from Reliance Infocomm and Ernet India, under UGC – Infonet programme. From 5 December 2006, university campus is fully Wi-Fi enabled.
The university initiated its efforts by evolving a plan for developing a campus wide computer network with a mandate to link together all the computing resources located in different departments, centers and other buildings of the university for easy and effective access by the university community consisting of faculty, scientific and research personnel, students, and staff to a host of IT- based services such as the e-mail, internet, and access to a large variety of knowledge sources available within the university or outside of the university
The Campus Networking project took concrete shape when in November 2003 a robust networking backbone, based on multi-mode fiber-optic cabling spread over a distance of about 3 km extending to various departments of the university was commissioned using Cisco catalyst 4500 series central switch using backend switches (Cisco 2950) with their embedded firewalls Cisco 5215 and Cisco 515 and Intrusion Detection System (IDS) 4215 modules. These hardware firewalls safeguard the network from the outside threats and intrusions.
A video conferencing facility has been established in the University of Jammu. This video conferencing Facility suite is in the Brainstorm Room located at vice – Chancellors chamber.The suite offers the ability to hold conferences with many other sites throughout India. It is possible to hold multi-venue conferences with several sites throughout India all connected to each other. This works surprisingly well. The suite comfortably seats 10-15 people at a conference table, with seating available for an additional 7-8 participant on and/or off camera.
The suite has one camera with Sony set top box and 29” color display and sound facilities. The camera has features that allow you to remotely pan around the room to show additional participants as well as zooming in for a close-up if a particular individual is speaking.
E-mail is the term used for the electronic transfer of information between individuals and organizations. University of Jammu recognizes that e-mail has potential to improve communications between the staff as well as external organizations. So University of Jammu has set up its own web based email facilitity, which helps the individuals of the university to correspond to the organizations and other individuals from inside the campus or anywhere from outside.
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