Government Polytechnic College, Jammu

Government Polytechnic College, Udhampur was set up in the year 2012, it is affiliated college located in Gole Market, Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir. The institute is recognised by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and it is engaged in providing diploma in Engineering disciplines. Situated on a 7. 52 acres land, it has total admission capacity of 105 students and 8 teachers and faculty members.

Government Polytechnic College, Udhampur offers three diploma courses in Automobile Engineering, Civil Engineering and Computer Engineering for the students who wanted to take technical education in this region. There are many facilities that the college has to offer with regards to the students’ academic and practical needs.

A library with text and reference books numbering 4476 with various subjects in Automobile and Civil Engineering are available in the college for students use. It comprises of 25 state of the art HP computers with the most current specifications accompanied by two online ups 5KVA systems for reliable power supply.

Such equipments include multimedia projectors and printers, scanners as well as digital copier providing students with the required experience of IT equipment. Government Polytechnic College, Udhampu, also possesses good Physics and Chemistry laboratories.

The Physics lab has modern instruments such as sonometers, Fortis barometers, astronomical telescopes and the Chemistry lab has utility apparatus like electric ovens, flash point apparatus, redwood viscometers. These are intended to be utilitarian for first and second semester students and based on what is taught in class.

There sufficient classroom space, well lit with good ventilation and fitted with white writing boards, comfortable steel desk for effective leaning. There are only three full time diploma courses offered at the Government Polytechnic College, Udhampur of three years each. At the present, the institute has the approved intakes of 150 students in all the programmes put together.

The Automobile engineering course offers 60 seats as well as civil engineering while Computer engineering offers 30 only. These are professional courses that give students the real life technical skills as well as the knowledge in their specialised field. The admissions procedure followed in Government Polytechnic College, Udhampur is user friendly so as to attract more students.

Every polytechnic college has its own standard of intaking students according to their performance in the exams like polytechnic examination or previous years academic performance. All three diploma programmes has annual fee of 6,390 rupees which make technical education is cheap for students in that area.