Veer Madho Singh Bhandari Uttarakhand Technological University (UTU) made the decision to enhance the number of B.Tech seats at six engineering colleges that have transitioned to campus colleges during a recent cabinet meeting on April 18, 2023. The action, which is in line with the New Education Policy-2020, aims to make courses more beneficial and career-focused. This article will examine the specifics of this choice and how it might affect the state’s engineering students.

The UTU’s Six Campus Colleges

• The Institute of Technology Gopeshwar Chamoli
• Women’s Institute of Technology Dehradun
• Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University Tanakpur
• Nanhi Pari Frontier Institute of Technology Pithoragarh
• THDC-IHT New Tehri 
• Bonn Engineering College Uttarkashi are the six engineering colleges that have transitioned to campus colleges at UTU.

The requirement for more B.Tech seats

Currently, there aren’t many seats available in these universities, making it difficult to accept all aspiring engineering students. In order to fulfill the rising demand for qualified workers in this industry, one of the main goals of this decision is to increase the number of B.Tech seats, notably in computer science.

Making Teaching More Practical and Job-Oriented

Making the courses offered by these independently funded institutions more valuable and subject to university-level quality testing is an important component of this approach. The university plans to supplement the traditional curriculum with useful, skill-development, and employment-oriented courses as part of the New Education Policy-2020, even though the engineering colleges’ curricula have been implemented in accordance with the standards established by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).

Industrial Training Facility

The university will increase the number of seats and offer industry training to the students enrolled in these institutions in addition to expanding the number of seats. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between UTU and industry for the purpose of sending its students to training programmes has proven helpful in developing skilled labor for multinational corporations throughout the state, including Dehradun. Students will have additional possibilities to obtain practical experience and become job-ready as industrial training facilities grow.

An important step towards ensuring that aspirant engineering students in the state receive high-quality technical education is the decision to enhance the number of B.Tech seats in the six engineering colleges that have been designated as campus colleges of UTU. The university seeks to generate qualified professionals who can contribute to the expansion and development of the state’s economy by enhancing the usefulness and job-oriented nature of its courses and by offering facilities for industrial training.