The Puducherry government run Engineering college will be upgraded into a Technical University, Agriculture and Education Minister R.Kamalakannan, today said.
He was felicitating a new batch of students joining the college following their selection through CENTAC (an admission committee) for the academic year 2016-2017.
Kamalakannan said Rs 27 crore would be spent for upgradation of the infrastructure facilities necessitated by raising the status of the college to a Technical University.
Revenue Minister M O H F Shah Jahan and College Principal P Dananjayan also spoke.
The engineering college was set up through a registered society by the Puducherry government in 1985.
Initially it was functioning in a temporary premises at Lawspet. Later, it was shifted to a sprawling site in Pillaichavady, close to the Pondicherry University.
