General Information about PTC, Mysore

Location

Mysore is located at a distance of 137 kms from Bangalore, the capital city of the state of Karnataka. Mysore is connected to Bangalore by both rail and road. The drive from Bangalore takes about three hours.

Postal Training Centre at Mysore is housed in a palace, which formerly belonged to the royal family of Mysore. The campus is spread over an area of 31.5 acres with hostels, play grounds and other amenities for trainees.

How to reach

Postal Training Centre Mysore is situated in the Nazarabad Area diagonally opposite to Nazarabad Police Station. Mysore Railway station is about 5kms. Mysore main bus stand is about 3 kms. KSRTC local buses ply from railway station/bus stand to a bus stop situated near the PTC, Mysore main gate. Auto charges from railway station would be around Rs. 35/- and from main bus stand, it would be around Rs. 25/-

Climate

Mysore enjoys a cool and pleasant climate round the year with temperature rarely going beyond 30 C

Accommodation

Postal Training Centre has its hotel in the Campus, where participants will be accommodated. There will be sharing of accommodation. Separate blocks are available for men and women trainees. Accommodation for the families of the participants is not available.

Mess facility
Good vegetarian mess facility is provided to all the trainees.

Physical Training

Physical training activities are provided to the trainees through Physical Training Instructor. Facilities for playing outdoor and indoor games are available. A well equipped gymnasium is also available. There will be yoga session every day for the interested trainees.

Library/Reading room

All important daily newspapers, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, magazines of English, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada are made available to the trainees in the reading room. In Library, Southern regional languages books, books on management, compute, English fiction, non fiction and etc in English & Hindi.

Dispensary

A dispensary is available for providing medical facility to the trainees

Recreation

Each floor of the hostel block is provided with a TV. A music room is available in the campus with some important musical instruments.

Other facilities

A departmental post office is available in the campus attached to the main building