Two new RGUKT colleges to be established in Telangana

The Higher Education Department has proposed one RGUKT college each in Khammam and Mahabubnagar districts to Cabinet sub-committee on education reforms.

Hyderabad: Plans are afoot to establish two more colleges under the Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT) in the State. The Higher Education Department has proposed one RGUKT college each in Khammam and Mahabubnagar districts to Cabinet sub-committee on education reforms.

With the primary objective of providing high quality education opportunities to talented rural youth, the RGUKT was established in Basar in united Andhra Pradesh in 2008.

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Since its inception, top one per cent of the rural students who passed Class X are being given an opportunity to study at RGUKT and each year 1,000 students are being enrolled into pre-university courses (PUC), followed by undergraduate engineering programmes.

After formation of Telangana State, there has been a demand for setting up of another RGUKT in the State as two RGUKTs went to Andhra Pradesh post bifurcation. In this context, two more RGUKT colleges have been proposed with an outlay of Rs 400 crore for construction of each college.

The two proposed colleges with 1,000 seats each will operate under the ambit of the RGUKT-Basar. These colleges will be governed by independent directors.

Nine more engineering colleges

Meanwhile, plans are also afoot to establish nine more government engineering colleges from the next academic year.

This is being planned by upgrading government polytechnic colleges in Masab Tank, Ramanthapur, Marredpally, Warangal, Nizamabad, Mahabubnagar, Nalgonda, Kothagudem and Quli Qutub Shah Government Polytechnic. Once upgraded, these government engineering colleges will be operated by the Commissionerate of Technical Education but not by affiliating university – JNTU-Hyderabad or Osmania University.

Discussions to upgrade these government polytechnics have recently been held during the Cabinet sub-committee meeting on education reforms. The sub-committee directed officials concerned to speed up the process for up gradation.

These nine government polytechnics in the past operated as second shift polytechnics, holding classes in two shifts – morning and afternoon. However, the second shift classes have been scrapped, while the intake remained the same.

This academic year, Government Polytechnic College in Kosgi has been upgraded into an engineering college. This is the first engineering college under the government sector, which is affiliated to the JNTU-Hyderabad and administered by the Commissionerate of Technical Education.