2 engineering colleges to start functioning this year: Bukhari

Tribune News Service

Jammu, May 5

The government has decided to start courses in two new government engineering colleges coming up in Ganderbal district of Kashmir and Kathua district of Jammu division from this year.

The announcement was made today by Minister for Education Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari here at a gala event organised by Government College for Engineering and Technology (GCET) to celebrate its annual day. “We are in process of starting two colleges, one at Safapura in Ganderbal and the other one at Kathua. We will start the courses in the new institutions from this year,” he said.

“Two days back, a team of the Education Department held a meeting with officials of the Ministry of Human Resource Development and it was decided to start the courses in these colleges from this year,” Bukhari said.

Meanwhile, on the demand of the GCET management, he also announced an auditorium, college canteen and permanent warden post for the engineering college. He congratulated the management, students, parents and the college principal for achieving extraordinary results in academic and co-curricular activities and ensuring placements for students in leading business organisations.