Uneven Growth of Polytechnic Education

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.