Ambedkar Polytechnic

Ambedkar Polytechnic () is a Government Engineering College Located in Shakarpur, Delhi, India. It was established in 1986 under Department Of Training and Technical Education (DTTE), Government of Delhi. The institute is affiliated with the Board of Technical Education, Delhi and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi.

It was named after B. R. Ambedkar, a renowned freedom fighter was awarded the Bharat Ratna, and an able administrator. This Polytechnic flaunts its name in the international arena by being the biggest Polytechnic in Asia. The polytechnic also maintains relations with accreditations bodies like Indian Society for Technical Education.

Ambedkar Polytechnic offering Full-time Diploma in Engineering in Instrumentation & Control, Digital Electronics, Medical Electronics, Computer Engineering and Information Technology Engineering that cater to the changing needs of industry, business and community at large using need based curricular delivered in a dynamic learning environment. The institute has been contributing to train the youngsters in technical job-oriented courses.

Till 2005 Mechanical Engineering was also a part of the courses studied at Ambedkar Polytechnic. Diploma in Mechanical Engineering and Construction Engineering which was offered by this Polytechnic has now been shifted to Aryabhat Polytechnic and Pusa Polytechnic respectively.

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 :

• Garment making
• Hair & Skin Care
• Typing in English

Student life

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

• The Photography Club conducts workshops and training sessions in photography at various Locations.Photographs participants do events during festivals.
• The Red ribbon Club (RRC) established in 2009, Sessions on [...] Addiction, Life skill Development into youths to live better and healthier life,quizzes and the presentation on awareness of AIDS,Importance of blood donation.RRC has now expanded to various colleges and corporates around NCR region.
• The Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) is an entrepreneurial group at Ambedkar Polytechnic which aims to spread the spirit of entrepreneurship on campus.
• The Hindi Drama Club perform stage and street plays during the semester and student festivals.
• The Music and Dance Club performs on "music nights" at fashion shows, cultural events.
• Sports club of Ambedkar Polytechnic conduct annual competition at the nearby East Vinod Nagar Sports complex,Chhatrasal Stadium.It also invites other colleges throughout Delhi to participate in events including hockey, cricket, basketball, football, volleyball,track and field, badminton, tennis, table tennis, squash and weightlifting.

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

"Leaders are made, they are not born". In a country like India, where a basic graduation degree is mandatory to get a decent job, it is mandatory for working students to complete graduation for future leadership. Some Reputed institutions are providing Part-time Technical graduation:-

• Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, Institution of Engineers (India), Delhi Technological University, Jamia Millia Islamia, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (WILP) and many others.

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).

• Medical Electronics students complete their graduation in BSc Medical Imaging Technology (B.Sc MIT), BSc Medical Laboratory Technology (B.Sc MLT) from Sikkim Manipal University.

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.

• Kailash Chaudhary Junior Engineer at Indian Railways.
• Ravish Assi Deputy Manager at Ashok Leyland Limited.
• Arun Dhama is Artificer Apprentice (Sailors) at Indian Navy.
• Lalit Dangwal, Manager at Alcatel-Lucent.
• Kamal Rana, Technical Officer at DRDO.
• Aman Sharma Scientific Assistant at Bhabha Atomic Research Center.
• Raj Kumar at Larsen & Toubro Limited.
• Devang shah is Technical Support Engineer at Law Abiding Technology
• Shobha Tiwari at Larsen & Toubro Limited.
• Manish Shrivastav Senior Engineer at nokia siemens network.
• Vishal Kaushal is Airmen in Group ‘X’ (Technical) in Indian Air force.
• Tarun Raghav is Asst. Sub-Inspector (Radio Technician)in Delhi Police.
• Vijay Bisht Senior Engineer at Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL).
• Akanksha Tanwar at Sofcon India Pvt. Ltd.
• Junaid Khan Engineer at Fluor Daniel India Private Limited.
• Harsh Vardhan Engineer at Fluor Daniel India Private Limited.
• Rohit Bhardwaj Electrical Designer at Fluor Daniel India Private Limited.
• Rahul Kumar at Fluor Daniel India Private Limited.
• Anil Kumar Nagarwal is System Integration Specialist at Globacom Limited, Nigeria.
• Vikas Kumar is Associate Director - Global Head Storage Services at CSC.
• Ms Indu Anand is Independent Director at Vestige Marketing Private Limited.
• Dipika Jain is Technical Intern in Intel Corporation, Portland.
• Sourabh Sharma is Account Manager at Arrow Electronics.
• Rahul Gupta is Associate IT Consultant at ITC Infotech.
• Parveen Garg is Head of C&B DC India Design 3 (BUSS DU CoE Charging & Billing) at Ericsson, Gurgaon.
• Abhishek Kharwar is Senior Mobile Developer (iOS Developer) at KiwiTech.
• Sourabh Jain is SAN Admin at IBM India Pvt Ltd.
• Ankur Srivastava is Technical Solution Manager at at IBM India Pvt Ltd.
• Manish Kumar is software engineer in Birlasoft Limited.
• Nitish Joshi is a CEO and founder of Unipoint Solutions (India) http://unipointsolutions.in/.
• Sapna Sati is Windows System Admin at Tech Mahindra Limited.
• Amzad khan is System Administrator at Navigant consulting Pvt Ltd.
• Anand Sethi is Manager Technology Control at Fidelity Worldwide Investments UK.
• Shah Alam is Windows & VMWare Administrator at BNP Paribas India.
• Aashish Chugh is Principal Technology Consultant at VMware, Inc,United States .

Budget allocation

Plan-Rs.28,50,000

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

Training & Placement Cell

In order to provide secure and suitable placement to the students a dedicated Training & Placement Cell is available in the Institute which caters to the training and placement of the students. Major actitivies undertaken by the Cell are :

• Industry- Institute interaction activity
• Campus interviews & placement
• Industrial training & Projects
• Industrial visits
• Expert lectures in advanced and emerging areas of technology
• Seminars/Workshops
• Industry interaction for revision/modification of curriculum
• Entrepreneurship Camp

After successful completion of various courses, students have been absorbed for jobs in fields like Sales and Marketing, Production, Customer Support, Servicing, Development, and Technician in various reputed companies like Reliance Airport Metro Express, Dubie Metro, ABB, BSES, Tata Power-DDL, Dish TV, Law Abiding Technology, Ceasefire Industries Limited, ST-Micro Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Philips, Fluor Daniel, Schlumberger, Weatherford International, Baker Hughes, Textronics, Calcom Electronics, ITC Infotech, IBM, C-Dot, Siemens, CSC, TCS, Dell Inc, Canon Inc, Infosys, Wipro, iYogi, Tech Mahindra, Motherson Group, L&T, General Electric, Suzlon, Hewlett-Packard, Maruti Suzuki, HMSIL and Mother Diary Plant.

Feedback from industry is obtained regarding students training and industry is involved in the assessment of the students’ training.

Recently College Placement Department came to know that More than 50% of last Year Passout students Get jobs in Government sector i.e. DRDO, ISRO, BARC, Indian Railways, Intelligence Bureau (ACIO-Tech), Cabinet Secretariat, Indian Oil Corporation, ONGC, Delhi Metro, AIIMS, BEL, HAL, BHEL, Indian Navy, Indian Air Force, Indian Coast Guard (Yantriks) Delhi Police (ASI-Radio Technician), Prasar Bharti, NTPC, SAIL, Bank Note Mudran Pvt Ltd (BRBNMPL) and many more.

External links

• http://www.bpibs.in/
• Common Entrance Test