Punjab starts 6-year B Tech Course for Matric students

by Punjabnewswire4u

CHANDIGARH, OCT 11

The Punjab Government has started a 6 years B.Tech Degree course for the students belonging to rural areas directly after 10^th class with an aim to provide them the Engineering education on very nominal fee.

Disclosing this here today a spokesperson of the Punjab Government said that Punjab Government has decided to establish Punjab Institutes of Technology (PIT) across the state, that would work in collaboration with Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar. He said that earlier Punjab Government has set up a PIT at Mansa on trial basis and keeping in view the success of this, Punjab Government has taken a decision to set up these institutes in the whole state. 

He said that the admission process has already been started in Mansa PIT from the session, in which students who had passed 10^th have got admission on their merit in 10^th class. He said that 30% seats have been reserved for rural students. He said that the Punjab Government has also ordered to create a special quota in each PIT for the students belongs to the weaker section of society and the upper Income limit has been fixed at 2.5 lakh annually to get the reservation benefit under this category. Besides that the students willing to admit in PIT, should have passed the 10^th from the schools falls under the rural areas.

He said that in the case of private school in rural areas, the fee charged by school should be at par with the Government schools. PIT would not charge any tuition fee from the students admitted under this category, spokesman added.