Last day to register for admissions to polytechnics today

Nagpur: Last date to apply for admissions to the three-year diploma in polytechnic colleges is September 10. The three-year diploma course in engineering and technology is run by polytechnic colleges in Maharashtra state.
Ram Nibude, joint director, regional office, Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), addressed the media and said that an important change had been put in place in view of the Covid-19 pandemic. This year’s unique feature of the admission process for the first year diploma course is that ‘e-scrutiny format” for submitting application has been made available due to Covid-19 pandemic.
This was the initiative of DTE director Abhay Wagh, who along with his IT cell created the facility for students to fill up the application form from home. In addition to e-scrutiny, the facility for filling up the application form for admission physically in person at Facilitation Centre (FC) is also available like last year.
It is noteworthy that e-scrutiny method has been adopted by most of the students to register all the certificates along with the application this year, added Deepak Kulkarni, in charge principal of Government Polytechnic.
Every year for first year BTech admissions in IIT, IIIT, NIT and for similar national level engineering institutes, students have the option after 12th through JEE and CET examinations. This year a total of 9,21,261 students have registered for JEE 2020 at the national level. There are 17,627 seats available for the first year degree BTech course in IIT, IIIT. 19,239 seats are available in the first year in NIT. That means a total of 36,866 seats are available to students for IIT + IIIT + NIT. “According to the statistics 96% per cent students may not get admission in first year BTech even after passing JEE and CET,” as per a statement issued by the college.
Kulkarni added that through polytechnic diploma, students can directly get admission in second year of engineering degree course.