Government Polytechnic College, Cherthala: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

Government Polytechnic College, Cherthala, formed in the year 1994 is one of the premier technical institution situated at Alappuzha, Kerala. This affiliate college recognized by All India Council for Technical Education provides ample accredited and recognised diploma courses in various fields of engineering. The college is a massive sized college sprawling over a five-acre land, and its total intake capacity of the students is 773, and the strength of faculties is 29. Being technical institute, it offers five diploma courses, which takes three years of full time studies. As a result of offering practical oriented and marketable skills, the college is on a high demand for any mechanical engineers in the region.

Government Polytechnic College boasts of having well equipped learning facilities in the college that can be utilized by the students. The library which is considered as one of the most important parts of a students’ academic facilities contains a collection of 7,600 books including general books, technical books and literature books. This also includes a book bank facilities for SC/ST students and a magazine section which update the students about the latest development in the market. Department specific labs are also available on the campus and are important for providing practical knowledge necessary in technical training. The facility has a 350-seater auditorium that houses most of the academic and cultural activity on the compound. The college also has provisions of consumption through its mess and cafeteria serving hygienic and cheaper quality meals –the college store stocking on stationery and uniform –the well-equipped modern Information Technology infrastructure – a Common Computer Facility (CCF) Lab inclusive of curricular and co-curriculum needs.

The Government Polytechnic College, Cherthala provides five diploma courses and all the courses are only for regular class. These are Diploma in Computer Hardware Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Instrumentation Engineering. Each of the course has an approved enrolment capacity of sixty (60) students thereby giving the Polytechnic a total enrolment capacity of three hundred (300) students a year across the selected programmes. The mentioned core engineering disciplines convey the college’s objective of churning out competent technician specialists for in the engineering workplace.

The steps followed in admitting students for Government Polytechnic College Cherthala are quite dependent on simplified procedures. Somewhere details relating to this admission process are not given here; but it is expected that polytechnic colleges in Kerala may take admission through the Qualified marks of the ‘Kerala Common Entrance Examination (CEE)’ conducted by the Department of Technical Education, Kerala for admission into First Year of B.Tech / B.Pharma / BA181 / BFETI / etc. A very encouraging feature to both latest joiners and existing students is that college has a fixed uniform fees structure which comes to ₹ 9,650 across all courses offered indicating that college is quite affordable and offers quality technical education to its learners.