During the last decade, our country has witnessed a tremendous increase in the number of Engineering Colleges providing technical manpower at Degree level. However, the growth of technical institutions at diploma level has not been proportionate to the degree in Engineering. Whereas, the expansion of Degree level institutions has been several fold, the Diploma institutions expansion has suffered a setback. At present, the student intake in degree level courses is around 8 lakh per annum as against 5 lakh in diploma level. The present ratio of degree to diploma holders is around 1.6:1, whereas ideally it should be 1:3. This is in view of more private initiatives for starting colleges as self financing institutions coming up in the degree level institutions compared to the diploma level institutions.
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Aim of Polytechnic Education
The aim of the polytechnic education is to create a pool of skill based manpower to support shop floor and field operations as a middle level link between technicians and engineers. The pass-outs of Diploma level Institutions in Engineering & Technology play an important role in managing shop-floor operations. It is further an established fact that small & medium Industry prefer to employ Diploma Holders because of their special skills in interpreting enigineering, drawings, estimating, costing, billing, supervision, measurement, testing, repair & maintenance etc.
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