College of Agricultural Engineering and Post Harvest Technology, Gangtok: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

The College of Agricultural Engineering and Post Harvest Technology (CAEPHT) was founded in 2006, is one of the esteemed constituent college at Gangtok, Sikkim. Located on a vast land of 19.05 acres, this college is affiliated to the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) and it provides more options in college agricultural engineering courses and food technology. This institute has total student enrolment of 192 students and a faculty of 29 teaching professionals. CAEPHT has developed 12 courses in three levels of degrees covering such specialisations as Agricultural Engineering – Food Technology, Farm Machinery, Soil and Water Conservation and Renewable Energy Engineering.

College of Agricultural Engineering and Post Harvest Technology firmly believes in imparting quality education that is rose with the best of the facilities to its students. The college provides facilities of 25 laboratories which include Geographical Information System and remote sensing laboratory, soil mechanics laboratory, farm power and machinery, food quality laboratory etc. There is a standard modern Library with a stock of books in excess of 7220 together with online e-journals available through the Consortium for e-resources in Agriculture (CERA) for students’ use. Separate hostels have been constructed for boys and girls with a built up area of1300 sq meters accommodating 130 boys and 92 girls state of art gymnasium and indoor game facilities are also available. Qualified personnel in a medical unit take care of the health of the college headed by Eastman. The college also has an assembly hall with 270 seater, computer laboratory connected to the internet and internet services in different blocks of the college.

At CAEPHT students can earn their undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral degrees. In term of course, the institute offers two B.Tech programmes in Agricultural Engineering and Food Technology with 58 and 22 admissions separately. At the postgraduate level, it offers five M.Tech programmes, a year each for 5 students in following specialisation of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, Soil and Water Conservation Engineering, Processing and Food Engineering, Irrigation and Drainage Engineering and Renewable Energy Engineering. For such researchers, the college provides an opportunity to continue education and gain a Ph.D. in five different fields with the total of 11 vacancies for different specialization.

There are differences the procedure involving admission to CAEPHT depending on the academic programme as well as the level of education. For B.Tech programmes, candidates belonging to the North Eastern Hill (NEH) region are admitted by their respective state governments on merit of the common entrance examination held in the state. The nominees for the ICAR institutes are admitted based on the All India Entrance Test (AIET) organized by the ICAR. Of the 5 seats in each discipline the 3 are admitted based on the university entrance exam and the other two are admitted based on the ICAR Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) examination.