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sectors. Bosch Rexroth will setup one Centre of Excellence in Automation Technologies at College of SOCIAL SERVICE
Engineering, Trivandrum and one Centre of Competence in Automation Technologies at Government
Polytechnic at Kalamaserry. These centres will work on Dual education system centres that will
provide an in depth knowledge on Automation technologies.

4.47 The following courses are implemented under the technical education department in Public–
Private Partnership (PPP) mode.

a. Advanced Diploma in Automotive Mechatronics (ADAM) and Establishment of Centre of
Excellence in Mechatronics at GEC, Barton Hill.

b. Centre of Excellence in Automation Technologies in College of Engineering Trivandrum.
c. Centre of Competence in Automation Technologies in Govt. Polytechnic College,Kalamassery.
d. Two year MS Course in Translational Engineering in Government, Engineering College, Barton

Hill, Thiruvananthapuram.

4.48 Directorate of Technical Education is the nodal department for Technical Education in the
state. As envisaged in the 12th plan, the basic objective is to achieve faster, sustainable and more
inclusive growth. The details of technical institutions under the administrative and financial control of
Directorate of Technical Education is given in Appendix-4.38

Box No 4.6

Indian Institute of Technology in Kerala

The establishment of an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) is a long-standing dream of the
people of Kerala. A detailed project report for setting up IIT in Kerala was prepared and
submitted to the Union Government. The Union Finance Minister in his Budget speech 2014-
15 has announced the setting up of a new IIT in Kerala along with those in the states of
Chhattisgrah, Goa and Jammu & Kashmir. The establishment of an IIT in Kerala will help the
State to leap forward in the educational front. It is proposed to establish the IIT in Palakkad
district.

Source:Press Information Bureau, MHRD, GOI.

Engineering Colleges

4.49 There are 160 engineering colleges in the state with a total sanctioned intake of 53434 in 2014.
Out of these engineering colleges 148 (92.50%) are self financing colleges (unaided), 9 (5.63%)
are government colleges and 3 (1.87%) are private aided colleges. Major chunk of the unaided
engineering colleges are functioning in Ernakulum District (31 nos) followed by Thiruvananthapuram
(23 nos). There are no Government colleges in Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Ernakulam,
Malappuram and Kasargod districts. The District wise and management wise details of engineering
colleges and sanctioned intake are given in Appendix- 4.39

4.50 The sanctioned intake of Govt. colleges during 2014 was 3113 (5.83%), aided colleges 1640
(3.07%) and unaided colleges 48681(91.10%).

4.51 Of the engineering colleges in Kerala, the largest number of branch-wise seats was in
Electronics and Communication (11625) followed by Computer Science (9125) and Mechanical
Engineering (8951). Branch-wise distribution of seats in engineering colleges in 2014-15 is given
in Appendix.4.40. 4793 students were enrolled in government and aided engineering colleges for
graduate courses in the year 2013-14 and 5454 students were newly admitted in 2014-15. Out of

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