The Institute has a playground measuring 150m X 90m with facility for playing football, Cricket, Hockey, and other games. The institute is also having a Sports Complex for providing various types of outdoor and indoor games to students of this Institute. NIT Silchar also has a hard court for playing basketball and is provided with hard courts for playing Volleyball and Badminton. It has got a Lawn Tennis court within the campus. Overall, the institute has sufficient facilities for games and sports.

The workshop of the Mechanical Engineering Department acts as a Central Workshop of the Institute. It has Machine, Wielding, Fitting, Carpentry, Smithy, Pattern making and foundry shops. The workshop has Centre Lathes, Turret Lathe, Milling machines (horizontal, vertical & universal), Drilling machines (sensitive, polar & radial), Slotting machine, Grinder Pedestal, Surface Grinder M/C , Tools and Cutter Grinder Shaper machine, Planner machine, Power saw, MIG wielding machine, TIG wielding set, Motor Generator wielding set, Wood Turning Lathe, Electric furnace, Thickness Planner, Smithy Hearth furnace, Shearing machine, Grinding machine, Bench Grinder, Sand Reaming machine, Green Hardness Tester, Sheet Bending machine, Hand Punching machine, Plate Bending machine, Sieve analyzer, Permeability tester etc. Common workshop classes are held in the workshop along with workshop classes for higher semester of Mechanical Engineering branch. Different project works for the undergraduate students are also held in the workshop. The workshop is well equipped for the project works of the PG students of the Department. However, continuous efforts are being made to augment the facilities of the workshop commensurate with the change in technology. The workshop is also used for fabrication work for the Institute.

The Institute has got a sub Post Office within the campus. The sub Post Office has facilities like registration, money order, and speed post. The post office functions from 9.30 am to 2.30 pm. Students and staff and people from the surrounding villages get the facilities and take advantage of the facilities of this Post Office.