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K.A. Martin
KOCHI: A slew of innovations that hinges on community and industry-centred technology initiatives may well help the Government Polytechnic College (GPT), Kalamassery, forge a new image for technical education in Kerala. Come June, the polytechnic will be on a computer literacy-cum-entrepreneurship development exercise in the Kalamassery municipal area. At the same time, it will launch a community internet centre with broadband connectivity so that it will grow into a nodal centre for the e-governance programme of the Government. These initiatives and the year-old Entrepreneurship and Management Development Cell (EMDC) add an entirely new dimension to the functions of a polytechnic as experienced so far. The Principal of the college, V.A. Shamsudeen, says that the polytechnic plans to launch the computer literacy and entrepreneurship drive, aimed at women initially, within the Kalamassery Municipal area. The initiative comes under the Institute-Industry Partnership Cell (IIPC) and the EMDC established at the polytechnic with financial backing from the All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE). The Council has provided more than Rs. 10 lakhs for the two centres with provisions for over Rs. 7 lakhs in recurring expenditure. The building to house the community communication centre with 1,500 sq. ft. of built up area is ready thanks to help from Sebastian Paul, MP. Twenty-five terminals are expected to be installed at the centre and V-SAT connectivity will be in place early next month.
Videoconferencing
The centre, first of its kind in a polytechnic in Kerala, is equipped to provide videoconferencing facilities. It will be groomed as a nodal centre for the e-governance initiatives of the Government, says C.R. Soman, Coordinator for the EMDC. The Coordinator for IIPC, Aiju Thomas, is confident that the centre will generate enough funds to see its day-to-day functioning through.
Renovations
These new initiatives come in tandem with hectic activities on the renovation front at the polytechnic. The major laboratories at the polytechnic will be renovated. These include the chemical and physics laboratories. The electrical lab will get an important addition in Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) lab for which AICTE has sanctioned Rs. 5 lakhs. The Principal said that a new electronics block was in the offing at a cost of Rs. 98 lakhs. The proposal for a new computer block at a cost of Rs. 60 lakhs was ready while a Rs. 55-lakh proposal was in the offing for the chemical block.
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