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4.3.2 Institution has an IT policy, makes appropriate budgetary provision and

updates its IT facilities including Wi-Fi facility.

Response:

Centre for Technical Support (CTS) maintains the policies governing the use of VIT computing

and IT communication resources. The IT Policy applies to the resources administered by the

administrative departments such as Library, Computer Laboratories, Offices of the Institution,
Hostels and Guest houses wherever the network facility is provided by the Institution.

Further, the entire faculty, students, staff, departments, authorized visitors/visiting faculty and

others who may be granted permission to use the IT Infrastructure, and must comply with the
guidelines. Certain violations of IT policy laid down by VIT by any institution member may even

result in disciplinary action against the offender by institution authorities.

The Acceptable use policies are applicable to Employees, Students, and Vendors & Visitors. CTS

have framed various policies like Procurement, Installation, of Hardware, Network and software.
E-mail account has been facilitated to employee and students under E-mail Use policy which is

reviewed and maintained whenever the modification happens. Website Hosting and Database

Usage policy has its method and hierarchy which is followed systematically.

VIT has proper budgeting process to arrive the IT budget needs of every school/department.
Requirement gathering happens at school/departments. Once the IT budget is finalized at the

school/department level, the approved budget is consolidated at CTS and arrive the total IT
Budget requirement.

An average Annual Budget of Rs.17.87 Crore per year, provided on improving the IT facility
shows the commitment of our Management in building the world-class IT facility in our campus.

This includes the Capital and Operational budget of Vellore and Chennai Campus.

IT infrastructure has been widely spread across connecting 56 buildings with very high-speed
robust network backbone. Our Computer network is built on CISCO switching platform with

backbone running on 10Giga at present. 12000+ IP enabled devices are connected to this fast
network. Understanding the demands of faculty and students to use digital media for their

research, teaching & learning process, 9.5 Gbps of internet bandwidth is made available through

four major Internet service providers.

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