The Regional Engineering Colleges
These are large-sized institutions judged by the standards then prevailing in the country. The considerations that weighed in this decision were :
- A large-sized college would be more efficient than the equivalent small colleges,
- The proposed colleges have to meet the additional requirements of the country as a whole and for that purpose should have to function on an all-India basis. Therefore, the smaller they are in number and the larger in size, the better, and
- For the same reason as in (2) their location is important from an all-India point of view.
It was decided that the 8 new colleges should be established two in each region, as follows:
Eastern Region - Durgapur and Jamshedpur. Western Region - Nagpur and Bhopal. Southern Region - Hyderabad and Mangalore. Northern Region - Delhi and Allahabad.Later, however, the college proposed for Hyderabad was established in Warangal. It was initially the intention that the college to be established in Delhi was to take over the degree courses in engineering and technology at the Delhi Polytechnic and that the Polytechnic should be developed only for diploma courses both on full- time and part-time basis. However, the college at Delhi became a separate entity by itself and in its place, the Regional Engineering College at Srinagar in the Northern Region was established. Thus, the 8 Regional Engineering Colleges in the first phase, came to be established.
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