Infrastructure and Equipment

Every STDC needs to have adequate infrastructure and equipment to conduct its necessary activities. These include broadly three categories; office rooms, training/ meeting rooms and residential/ hostel facilities.

Office Rooms

The STDC office rooms include the chamber of the STDC Director, and appropriate space for the Training and SM&E Section. It is desirable this appropriate office space may be provided along with the STC or along side the training/ meeting rooms.

Training/ meeting rooms :

  • Auditorium with a seating capacity of approximately 50 or more
  • Two rooms with seating capacity of 20 each. These may be setup in a manner such that it may be joined together to form a larger room.

Residential/ hostel facilities:

Based on the load of training, ie. number of concurrent trainees that are likely to be trained at the STDC, residential facilities for the identified candidates need to be provided. These may be used for housing trainees during in-person sessions, or for housing program managers during review meetings. There should be facilities available for accommodation of minimum 25 participants.

Equipment

The STDCs/RTPMCs should be provided with the necessary equipment to effectively deliver trainings. Modernized Training Units at STDCs require facilities such as high speed internet connectivity, virtual knowledge dissemination platform like ECHO hubs, interactive digital instruction board (minimum 2), LCD Projector and screen (minimum 2), trainee level digital devices (minimum 30) and portable AV equipment (minimum 4) for trainings at satellite sites

STDCs/RTPMCs should also be equipped with adequate number of computers/laptops for office & SM&E activities. 

Vehicle for transportation:

The STDCs should be equipped with vehicle support to effectively deliver trainings and SM&E activities. If the residential/ hostel facilities are located at more than one kilometer from the training halls, facility for transportation of trainees is also required.

These training, residential and equipment, facilities may be dedicated for the STDCs but may also be shared with or borrowed from any regional institute (SIHFW) or medical colleges as appropriate.