Students & Staff Amenities
Looking into the importance of physical and mental wellness of both the staff and students, the University has created sufficient sports and recreational amenities across the campuses of the University. These amenities are efficiently used and well managed. Other than these sports and recreational facilities the university also provide following career and financial advisory services for both staff and students across all the campus.
- Career and employed advice for the students is being done through various channels viz. office of Dean (Students welfare), skill development centre of the university and individual student counsellors.
- Financial advisory services to the students is being done through the Dean (Students Welfare) especially on the source of scholarships and fellowships connecting the needy students to sponsors and helping the students in preparation of documents for educational loans.
- For the staff, the university provides house building, vehicle loan, children education loans and festival advances.
- The teacher’s association of the University arranges assistance in filing annual ITRs and provide advisory services on various savings and invest schemes through the qualified financial advisor.
Each campus of the university has uniquely equipped with the sports and recreational facility and has its own autonomy in formation of cultural group at the campus level. Campus wise facilities are presented below.
Bengaluru Campus
- In the well maintained indoor sports complex with two badminton synthetic courts and two table tennis courts are created. Multi-gyms facility is created for the use of both students and staff.
- The outdoor sports complex has athletics track, standard football and hockey field, basketball court with flood lights, ball–badminton courts, kho-kho courts, kabaddi courts with Interlocking mat, volley ball court and outdoor gym at boy’s and girls’ hostels.
- The campus has well maintained canteen and cafeterias in the shopping complex. To safeguard the interest of the students and the staff food quality, prices and food quantity is being periodically reviewed by canteen committee of the University.
- Students cultural group ‘Bhoomica’ is managed by the students and mentored by the faculties performs periodically in all the major events of the campus like annual day, send-off parties and inter-campus cultural fest.
- GKVK Kannada Thingala Habba (GKVK Kannada Monthly Festival) is being organized by Dr. P.S. Srikantha Murthy, Professor of Agricultural Economics with active participation by the students and financial support by faculty, staff, students and well-wishers and with logistic facilities by the campus. The program was started in January 2012, with the purposes of creating awareness, among the students and staff, about the cultural richness of our land and help them in shaping their overall personality. Wide variety of cultural extravaganza that included Bansuri concert by Padma Vibhushan Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Bihu dance by artists from Assam, Mayur bhanj dance by artists from Odisha, film festival of world renowned director Dr. Girish Kasaravalli’s movies, samvad with literary luminaries like Sri Jayanth Kaykini, Dr. H.S. Venkatesh Murthy, Dr. B.R. Lakshman Rao, Ashtavadhana by Dr.Shatavadhani Ganesh, Folk arts like Yakshagana and Kathakkali, Music concerts by famous artists that included Mysore brothers (violin), VidwanVidyabhushan (Vocal), Pandit Pravin Godkhindi (Flute), Dr. Jayanthi Kumaresh (Saraswathi Veena), One act plays like Mysuru Mallige, Mukhya Mantri and so on. Till today 98 monthly programmes were organized.
