Bajaj Center facilities
The Bajaj Center building has a covered area of about 900 m2 and houses a conference room, guest accommodation, dining room, modern kitchen and office space.
Conference room
The conference room contains audio-visual equipment for presentations and seating capacity for more than 100 people.Accommodation
Each guest room is a self-contained unit for two persons with attached bathroom and has furniture consisting of wardrobe, desk and chairs. There are two seperate suites for faculty on the second floor.Dining room
The kitchen provides breakfast, lunch, dinner and refreshments
at scheduled
times.
Features of the Building
The building has been designed by two US architecture interns, Megan Cook and Ross Karsen, and has features to minimize its environmental running costs. Thus very innovative features like rainwater harvesting, use of a solar water heating system for the guest accommodation (back-up is provided by a wood fired boiler), evaporative roof cooling for summer months and natural lighting and ventilation are being incorporated in the building. A covered veranda together with an open courtyard of 350 m2 area will give a pleasant ambiance to the center.NARI facilities
On the main campus, in addition to the Bajaj Center, there is a
chemistry laboratory, clean room, seed bank, sophisticated
instrumentation lab, an engineering workshop, a
small library, a
seminar room and a number of
offices. There are
50 acres of NARI research farm surrounding the main
campus.
Conference room
Kitchen and dining room
