Miranda House, New Delhi

Miranda House Facilities

• Hostel: Miranda House provides hostel accommodation for outstation students on twin sharing basis. Additionally, there are 4 rooms available in the form of a 4 seater arrangement. Each room is fully furnished including a single bed with storage box, drawer and a fitted mattress. The other occupants of the room include a bedside table, dresser, cupboard, study desk, wall mounted bookcase and chair. Other hostel facilities are dining hall, reading room, common room with television set, DTH connection and a home theatre, WiFi connection and many more.

• Library: The Miranda House has a technologically advanced, well-stocked, well-equipped and user-friendly library with more than 1,00,000 books, 43,270 e-journals and 100 databases in stock. The library is divided into 3 levels with 6 special sections such as, Textbook, General Books, Reference Tools, Reserves, Periodicals and Braille Books. Also there are numerous periodicals and magazines which are circulated automatedly by Libsys. 

Access to DULS and important databases like N-LIST and INFLIBNET are also provided by the library which gives access to 97,000 and above e-books and 6000 e-journals to students and faculty staff. Miranda House has linked with various other renowned Library Resource Centers like, American Center Library, British Council Library and DELNET. This has ensured members to access e-resources from other library systems. The library also has 2 Digital resource Centers. One which can be accessed by all users for e-resources has 30 computers. The other one is known as the Amba Dalmia Digital Resource Center (ADDRC) and it is meant for the visually challenged members wherein the library organizes a special Orientation Programme for such students. Besides desktops loaded with assistive software such as Jaws, Safa, Lekha, and taking typewriter, printers and audio recording equipment, it also consists of Braille Embosser and Lex Scanner.

• Fitness Center: To cater with the fitness regime of students and staff, Miranda House provides a fitness center within the campus. The fitness center has equipment for weight and cardio training.

• Cafeterias: Miranda House has an exquisitely designed cafeteria with furniture that are custom designed. The cafeteria serves fresh and hygienically prepared food to students and staff of the college. The water used for cooking and drinking comes from the hostel RO Water Purification Plant.

The college also has 2 food kiosks, the Nescafe kiosk and the Pizza and More (PAM) kiosk which are quite popular among the students. A Quick Bite kiosk is at the college main gate. The Night Dhaba operated by the canteen vendor satiates sudden hunger pangs for the hostel students from 9 pm to 11 pm.

• Medical Facility: Miranda House has a Medical Support Unit within the hostel.this facility is also shared by the college. The Medical Support Unit is associated with DU's World University Service (WUS) Health Centre which is situated at V. P. Patel Chest Institute and at a short distance from Miranda House. Students of the college visit WUS to treat basic ailments. A neighbouring hospital Nu Life provides physicians for the in-house medical unit of the college which includes a doctor for 3 days a week and a nurse for 6 days a week. The medical center also has a stock of medicines for common illnesses like, fever, pain, allergy, asthma, etc.

The college also has an emergency Sick Room. It has 2 medical beds and 1 attendant bed and other medical equipment like Oxygen Cylinder, BP Machine, Glocometer, Nebulizer, Glucose Drip, etc.