The college stands committed to working towards safety of all these students. Initiatives and interventions are multipronged. These involve creating better infrastructure inside the college; enhancing safety in the immediate environment in collaboration with civic agencies; creating strong peer and student-faculty interaction, providing mentoring and counselling services, creating oversight and redressal mechanisms for all students. However, at all times, the individual's privacy and dignity is respected.

Security Guards: The college has round the clock security of high standards. To this end it employs a large number of well-trained guards on 24 hour roster. Security has been outsourced to a professional agency. Lady security guards are employed during the day at the college entry gates.

Disaster Preparation: Educational institutes of repute are expected to be well prepared and vigilant to handle all forms of emergencies. A comprehensive disaster management plan and protocol is in place. Miranda House Geography Department has created an Evacuation Plan for the entire college. This is well displayed. Students are sensitized through Mock drills to respond to alarms including those in case of fire, terror or natural disaster; services of City Police, Fire Department, Red Cross and CISF have been solicited for this training.

This has entailed creation of the following facilities:

  • Fire Extinguishers: The college has installed Fire fighting equipment at all strategic locations after a comprehensive Fire Fighting Audit by pertinent agency. The equipment is well maintained and college ensures that it is functional.
  • CCTV: As part of security measure, the college has installed a vast network of CCTV cameras covering the boundary, gates, open spaces, corridors and other critical areas while protecting privacy of teaching-learning and social spaces. There are 48 CCTV Cameras in the College Area, 64 in the Library Area and 16 in the Hostel Area, all with two-week recording.
  • Public Address System: This covers the entire college area with 15 Sound Projector Speakers, Horn Loud Speakers, PA Amplifier system with 2 inputs and microphones for addressing from tow locations. The Hostel has its own PA system.

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The Cafeteria has been aesthetically renovated and is furnished with custom-designed furniture. It includes a well-ventilated open kitchen for preparation of certain food items, with chimney hoods above burner stoves. Utmost hygiene is maintained at the food counters, dedicated storage spaces for grocery, cookware crockery and cutlery and dish washing area. Additional large room adjoining the main hostel kitchen and opening into the cafeteria complex is used for preparation work and most of the heavy duty cooking. Water supply for cooking and drinking purpose is from the Hostel Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Plant.

Food Kiosks

The student activity area has two very popular food kiosks, the Nescafe Kiosk and the Pizza and More (PAM). Additionally there is a Quick Bite Kiosk at the main college gate close to science departments. The canteen contractor also runs a Night Dhaba for benefit of hostel students from 9 pm to 11 pm. The hostel student have self-organized themselves to run a tuck shop for residents, with shared responsibility.

Drinking Water

The college is committed to providing sufficient and uninterrupted water of good quality to the entire college. An Industrial Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Plant has been installed in the main college block to provide water to all water coolers and drinking water outlets. The permeate water quantity is 1000 LH, identical to the one installed in the academic block. A Comprehensive Annual Maintenance Contract with the manufacturer/supplier of the plant ensures regular servicing of equipment as well as treated Water Quality Testing on critical parameters such as turbidity, total hardness, chlorides, sulphates and TDS.

The college has an Annual Cleaning and Maintenance Contract for cleaning of all underground and overhead tanks in all areas of the college every six months. The college plumber regularly checks that all tank lids are properly locked; problems of leakage and overflow are addressed as soon as they occur.