Ghani Khan Choudhury Institute of Engineering & Technology

Ghani Khan Choudhury Institute of Engineering & Technology

Type	public
Established	2010
Founder	Ministry of Human Resource Development
Affiliation	AICTE, New Delhi WBSCTVE&SD, Kolkata Certificate Course WBSCTVE&SD, Kolkata Diploma Course MAKAUT, Kolkata B.Tech Course
Chairman	Saumitra Sarkar
Director	Dr. Parameswara Rao Alapati
Address	Narayanpur, Malda, West Bengal, India Coordinates: 25°12′00.41″N 88°04′06.04″E / 25.2001139°N 88.0683444°E / 25.2001139; 88.0683444
Campus	Rural
Website	gkciet.ac.in

Ghani Khan Choudhury Institute of Engineering & Technology (GKCIET) is a Centrally Funded Technical Institute Engineering college under Ministry of Human Resource Development situated at Narayanpur, Malda in the Malda district of West Bengal, India.^[1]

About

Ghani Khan Choudhury Institute of Engineering & Technology (GKCIET), Malda, West Bengal was established in 2010 by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India under the mentorship of National Institute of Technology, Durgapur and in the memory of Sri A.B.A. Ghani Khan Choudhury who had contributed immensely to societal development of the region. The Institute is located at Narayanpur in Malda, West Bengal with the bordering districts of Bihar, Jharkhand and North Eastern states. Ghani Khan Choudhury Institute of Engineering & Technology (GKCIET), Malda was established with the objective to create a multi-layered inter disciplinary and inter-sectorial efficient professional technical manpower to act as an international podium for the development and transfer of technical competence in academics. It is committed to provide best possible technical education from grass route level to higher level and to cater to the specific needs of women, school dropouts and other disadvantaged sections of society by organizing a large no of short/long term skills orientation programmes for economic upliftment and inclusive growth of society. It was formulated that the Institute, besides catering to the needs of formal education would undertake the non-formal education to prepare the skilled and qualified manpower for self-employment. Further, the Institute would take up a strategic research and development activities, which along with entrepreneurship will help in extending the efforts of the Institute in imparting education to the unemployed and working population by updating and upgrading their technical skills. GKCIET is devoted to provide leadership, organizational expertise, technical assistance and the other resources required to meet the demand.

History

Ghani Khan Choudhury Institute of Engineering & Technology was a dream project of former Railway Minister A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury.His dream was to provide basic Engineering to the students of Malda and nearby area and states as these areas lacks in modern Education facilities and moreover students had to go to other cities to pursue Education. GKCIET was temporarily started in 1 November 2009 at Power Grid Corporation of India TTC Campus Maliha, Malda by then Minister of Human Resource Development Sri Kapil Sibal.In June 2010 admission to the Certificate Course was started in the stream of Electrical Engineering,Mechanical Engineering and Food Technology with 30 students in each streams. In the year 2012 the 2 years Diploma Module of GKCIET was inaugurated by the Former Union Minister of State for Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Shri Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury and Former Minister for Science and Technology Government of West Bengal also the Chairman of GKCIET Shri Abu Nasar Khan Choudhury.These 90 students where uplifted to the Diploma Module through Vertical Mobility. In the year 2013 the foundation stone for the 300 achers Permanent Campus of GKCIET at Narayanpur was laid by Former Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh, U. P. A Chairperson Smt. Sonia Gandhi and the Former Minister of Human Resource Development Sri Pallam Raju and also started two news new streams in Certificate Course the Computer Science and Engineering and Civil Engineering. On First of August 2014 The Former President of India Pranab Mukherjee,Governor of West Bengal Sri Keshari Nath Tripathi, Former Minister of Human Resource Development Smt Smriti Zubin Irani and in absence of Chief Minister of West Bengal Smt Mamta Banerjee Former Minister of Tourism Government of West Bengal Sri Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury inaugurated and the First Building Block of GkCIET Permanent Campus at Narayanpur Malda and also uplifted the 2 years Diploma Module Students to 2 years Degree (Btech) modules in Electrical Engineering ,Mechanical Engineering and Food Technology. Two new Stream Sericulture and Textile Engineering and Chemical Engineering was also started and admission were taken in the Certificate Module.

From 2018 Full Time 3-Years Diploma Course had started with an intake of 30 students in Electrical Engineering,Mechanical Engineering,Food Technology and 60 students in Civil Engineering and Computer Science Engineering.Half the number of students are taken through the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination for Polytechnic,JEXPO for the students belonging to the state of West Bengal and half the students are taken through GKCIET Entrance Test (GET-1) for the students belonging to all States and Union Territories (Excluding West Bengal).

From 2018 Full Time 4-Years Btech(Degree)Course had been started with an intake of 62 students in Electrical Engineering,Mechanical Engineering,Food Technology out of which 32 seats are fulfilled through West Bengal Joint Entrance ExaminationWBJEEKolkata for the students belonging to West Bengal.

15 seats are fulfilled by the students belonging to 8 States of North-Eastern States of India, i.e., Meghalaya,Mizoram,Manipur,Assam,Arunachal Pradesh,Tripura,Nagaland and Sikkim for each stream through Joint Entrance Examination-Main JEE-Main conducted by CBSE.

15 seats are fulfilled by the students belonging to All States and Union Territories of India (Excluding West Bengal and 8 North Eastern States of India]]for each stream through Joint Entrance Examination-MainsJEE-Main conducted by CBSE. The B.Tech Courses are Affiliated to Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology,MAKAUTKolkata.

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