Gujarat Technical University to offer short term vocational courses in private engineering colleges

Gujarat Technical University (GTU) is going to offer short term vocational courses in private engineering colleges as the seats have gone vacant. Many private engineering and management institutes have not been able to fill their seats allotted to them. In the view of this, the GTU has decided to come up with some new short term courses and vocational courses. These courses are aimed at using the infrastructure that these colleges have with them. The Gujarat Technological University (GTU) has allowed some of its affiliated colleges to run the short term vocational courses that are skill-based.

The colleges affiliated with the GTU will be running bachelor and diploma vocational courses and by this way they will be able to use the infrastructure in their campuses. The institutes that have been allowed to run these courses are; RNG Patel Institute of Technology Isroli, Surat; Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Technology,Anand; Sunshine Education Trust Group of Institutions, Rajkot; CK Shah Vijapurwala Institute of Management, Vadodara and LJ Polytechnic, Ahmedabad. These colleges have been given permission to run as many as 13 bachelor and diploma courses. The enrolment to these courses have been almost done and the classes will start from August, 2019.

On granting permission to these colleges to run short term courses, the VC of GTU Navin Sheth said, “As an initiative to use the existing infrastructure of technical colleges which is otherwise not used in the wake of vacant seats or less student intake, this has been worked out. To start with, five institutes have been given permission. This is also an attempt by the state government to implement the Centre’s Skill India campaign. ” This has been a new experiment and it is expected that this will pay back to the institutes as well as to the students pursuing the course.