Central Engineering Colleges
Thus, 15 Regional Engineering Colleges were established one in each of the major States. The dates and places in the various States where they were established are as follows :-
- Andhra Pradesh Warangal 1959
- Mysore (now Karnataka) Surathkal(Mangalore) 1960
- Maharashtra Nagpur 1960
- Madhya Pradesh Bhopal 1960
- West Bengal Durgapur 1960
- Bihar (now Jharkhand) Jamshedpur 1960
- Jammu & Kashmir Srinagar 1960
- Uttar Pradesh Allahabad 1961
- Orissa Rourkela 1961
- Kerala Kozhikode(Calicut) 1961
- Gujarat Surat 1962
- Rajasthan Jaipur 1963
- Punjab (Haryana) Kurukshetra 1963
- Madras (Tamil Nadu) Tiruchirapalli 1964
- Assam Silchar 1967
The colleges were intended to have all-India character and to serve the whole country for providing technical personnel required for the successive five-year plans. In view of the following aims and objectives, it was recommended that the Regional Engineering Colleges should appropriately be renamed as Central Engineering Colleges. The all-India character was to be ensured, by each college admitting students from all the other States and appointing the best available teaching staff, on an all-India basis.
Two more were later established in the states of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh at Jalandhar and Hamirpur respectively owing to country's growing need for quality manpower.
- Punjab Jalandhar 1987
- Himachal Pradesh Hamirpur 1987
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