Essentials

Accomodation

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Officers Mess

DSCSC Officers’ Mess provides food and accommodation to bachelor officers and officers attending course without their families. The Officers’ Mess of the College has an Ante Room, a Ladies Room and a Billiard Room. All College staff, students and their wives can use the mess. Single officers dine here. Two separate menu, Bangladeshi and continental are catered for Bangladeshi and overseas offrs respectively. No alcohol is available neither is allowed in the Officers’ Mess. Apart from dining members, others may also avail the normal mess facilities.

Medical

One medical specialist and a lady doctor are available from 0730 hours to 1400 hours on working days in the Medical Inspection (MI) Room of the College. The MI Room remains open all the time with a nursing assistant on duty. In the MI Room routine medical check up and outdoor treatment of ordinary ailments are provided. Ambulance services are provided for evacuation of sick/casualties from residence to MI Room. Serious patients are evacuated to the CMH at Dhaka Cantonment. Medical facilities at the military hospital are free for officers (including overseas officers) and their families as prescribed in the service Rules of Bangladesh. Officers intending to report sick must take permission from his syndicate DS and inform syndicate leader/any other course member of the syndicate and also clearly know his medical disposal given by Staff Surgeon. If no disposal is given an officer must join his class. In case a disposal is given, this must be informed to Teaching DS and also syndicate leader/any member of the syndicate. Following facilities are also available in MI Room:

•   ECG
•   Microscopic Test
•   Laboratory Test
•   Dressing Room
•   Heat Therapy

Schooling

The College has an English medium Kindergarten named “Torch Kindergarten” in the residential area, which includes the classes: Play Group, Nursery, KG, Standard One and Standard Two. The students, of higher classes can get admitted into different Bangla and English Medium Schools near or around Dhaka city. The College also provides transport services for the communications of the students to a few schools in the city.

Transportation

•  Emergency Ambulance Service from Defense Services Command and Staff College (DSCSC) Medical Inspection Room (MI Room) to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Dhaka, as and when required.
•  In addition to emergency ambulance, one bus/coaster and one microbus go to Dhaka CMH every working day.

Banking

There is a branch of the ‘Sonali Bank’ (Nationalized Bank) located near Military Police Gate No-1. Overseas officers may get the service from this local bank. However, officers willing to open account in other international bank located in Gulshan and Motijheel may contact GSO 2 (SD).

Canteen

A canteen named “Readymart” is located in the residential area. Items of daily necessities including perishables are available at reasonable price. Demand may be placed to the canteen for the items not readily available. Any complain regarding the price/quality of items sold in the canteen may be endorsed in the complain/suggestion register kept in the canteen.