Telangana plans to transfer Kosgi Government Engineering College to JNTU-Hyderabad
The Telangana government is preparing to transfer the Government Engineering College at Kosgi to JNTU-Hyderabad, citing operational challenges. The institution has faced faculty shortages, infrastructure constraints and declining student enrolment, prompting a rethink of plans for additional government engineering colleges.
Hyderabad: Barely two years after launching the first government engineering college in the State at Kosgi, which comes under Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s Kodangal constituency, the Telangana Congress government is now working out to hand it over to the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) – Hyderabad.
The move from the government comes as the Technical Education department is finding it difficult to run the college. An order to this effect transferring the college to the JNTU-Hyderabad will be shortly issued by the government. Following the order, the Government Engineering College Kosgi will function as a constituent college of the JNTU-Hyderabad.
While there are universities and constituent engineering colleges, the State got its first Government Engineering College in Kosgi, which had been established by upgrading the existing government polytechnic college, in 2024. The government allocated 10 acres of land and Rs 30 crore for the infrastructure development and facilities at the college.
In fact, there are plans to set up 10 more government engineering colleges on similar lines. However, since running the existing college has already become a herculean task for the government, it has put the new proposal on hold.
Interestingly, the proposal comes at a time when the JNTU-H’s new constituent colleges in Paleru, Mahabubabad and Sircilla have already been struggling with different issues.
Further, the varsity, which has been facing severe faculty shortage, sought approval from the government to recruit 516 vacant teaching posts.
In addition to faculty and infrastructure, the Kosgi college faced students’ enrollment issues. To begin with, the college rolled out three programmes – Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), CSE Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and CSE Data Science. It offered a total of 180 intakes with 60 seats in each programme.
The first batch saw 140 enrolments, which dropped to 80 in the second batch. According to sources, there were instances of students who secured seats through the TG EAPCET counselling later cancelled their admissions and joined other colleges.
Meanwhile, according to sources, JNTU-Hyderabad proposed the development of the college in two phases. It sought buildings, laboratories and Rs 100 crore in funding besides approving nearly 40 teaching faculty positions for the college.
