Chandigarh, Mar 06: Punjab government will set up four new engineering colleges at Patiala, Hoshiarpur, Ropar and Mohali by upgrading the existing facilities in government polytechnics at these places, an official spokesman said today. These colleges, to be managed under the auspices of the Punjab Council of Technical Education and Entrepreneurial Development, would start functioning from the academic session beginning in July, 2003, the spokesman said.
Out of the four colleges, which would be operating on self-sustaining and financially-viable basis, the one at Patiala would be exclusively for girl students with hostel facilities, he added. Bureau Report