Ambedkar Polytechnic

General information

The main building of the polytechnic consists of six blocks, viz. Block A, B, C, D, E and F, which are spread over an area of 3.14 hectares. It has lecture theatres, classrooms, workshops, laboratories, college bus facilities to students and staff and student-related facilities, such as common room, canteen, library facilities, a sports room for recreational activities, LRUC Labs, DELNET facility and playgrounds. Student bus passes are available for the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC).

The college building is four stories. The campus has residential complex comprising 15 flats of Type IV and 15 flats of Type I.

The campus is completely self-reliant and built up as per the norms prescribed by All India Council for Technical Education for conducting diploma/post-diploma programmes with provision for further expansion and up-gradation.

Location

Ambedkar Polytechnic is located in the district of Shakarpur in far North East Delhi behind the Mother Dairy Plant at a distance of about ½ km from Pandav Nagar, Delhi.

A number of buses plied by Delhi Transport Corporation connection the different parts of the city. The institute is situated near V3S Mall and Nirman Vihar metro station (Blue Line) is roughly 10–12 minutes from the college.

Anand Vihar Terminal railway station is the nearest railway station is roughly 20–25 minutes from the college.

Indira Gandhi International Airport is the nearest airport at a distance of about 30 km from the campus. The DTC IGI Airport AC Bus Service is connected directly from Pandav Nagar to the airport at a fare of Rs. 25.

Admission procedure

The admissions to the different courses students must appear for a Common Entrance Test conducted by the Board of Technical Education, Delhi in May/June every year after qualifying this Exam students are selected through counseling for Ambedkar Polytechnic, Delhi as per the norms laid down by the Government of NCT of Delhi under Directorate of Training and Technical Education.

Science, Mathematics & English are compulsory and the candidate should have passing marks in each of these three subjects without considering grace marks.

Reservations are made for candidates belonging to Reserved Castes, physically handicapped & wards under Ministry of Defence (India).

The minimum eligibility to qualify for the Common Entrance Test is 60% for General category and 55% for the Reserved categories in All India Secondary School Examination.

Courses offered

Ambedkar Polytechnic offers only high-tech and specialised courses in advanced and emerging areas of technology. In order to provide horizontal flexibility and vertical mobility besides offering flexibility to the students to work at individual space, Multi-Point Entry and Credit System Scheme has been introduced in the disciplines of Electronics Engineering with specialisation in Digital Electronics and Microprocessor System Design & Medical Electronics and Instrumentation & Control Engineering. Students under MPEC Scheme students with entry qualification of 10+2 can even complete Diploma in two & half years.

Faculty

Dr. (Mrs.) Amita Dev is the Principal/Director of Ambedkar Polytechnic and Bhai Parmanand Institute of Business Studies at Shakarpur, New Delhi is a Graduate in Elect Engineering (B.E) from Punjab Engineering College, Master in Science (M.S) from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS Pilani), PhD (Computer Science Engineering) from Delhi Technological University.

Most professors in this college are Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) passed and probably is one of the criteria to qualify for teaching in this college.

There are visiting faculties from Delhi Technological University (DTU), and Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU).

Most of the communication takes place in Hindi.

Library

The library is air conditioned housed in a hall of about 300 square metre. The library holds about 8000 books, and more than 20 journals and magazines. DELNET facility is available.

Learning Resource Centre: LRUC has been established to supplement curriculum based teaching with latest and emerging trends in technology.

Community Polytechnic: in 1998, this polytechnic was selected for implementation of Community Polytechnic Acheme under the Ministry of Human Resource Development (India), Govt. of India.

Courses offered are as follows :

Associations

The SPIC MACAY (Society For Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Among Youth) college seeks to conserve and promote the Indian cultural tapestry among youth by focusing on the classical arts with their legends, rituals, mythology and Philosophy.

Clubs

Industry interaction

There are seminars held in the college auditorium though not on a large scale. Industry interactions are pretty rare. Students rarely visit any company thus are unaware of how the company runs. Overall exposure is definitely very less and the college should take immediate steps to improve the current scenario.

Campus life

As the college is affiliated to Board of Technical Education, Delhi certainly major students are from the main city of Delhi. Boys to girls ratio is pretty much equal though the former are a few more. The college has recreational facilities like table tennis, carom chess, Electronics Club and a gymkhana.

Future leadership

Some Reputed institutions are providing Part-time Technical graduation:-

Computer Engineering, Information Technology students have one additional advantage to complete graduation from Punjab Technical University, Lovely Professional University and Sikkim Manipal University in just two years through lateral entry in (B. Sc-IT).

The demand of technical managers has increased by 63% in the last two years and lately manufacturing, service industries are looking into investing seriously on technical managers, increasing the demand for such professionals and employee salary demand is on the rise. Many other management programmes are offered by various institutions for diploma engineers some of them are listed below :- All India Management Association, Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, National Power Training Institute, Indira Gandhi National Open University (ACPDM), Appin Technology Lab, CCNA, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing.

Alumni section

The Ambedkar Alumni Association is an international organisation with chapters throughout the world, connecting alumni in networking, social events and fundraising.

Budget allocation

Plan-Rs.28,50,000

Non-Plan-Rs.1,95,93,000