Government Polytechnic College

Government Polytechnic College, Nagercoil is one of the two polytechnics founded in 1959 under the second five year plan. It was initially functioning in the S.T. Hindu College Premises with 120 students. At that time, we had three branches civil Engineering mechanical engineering and Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Then, it was shifted to the present campus spreading over 20 hectares in September 1963. The technical High school was then part of our institution till the year 1986. At present, the curriculam has blossomed into five diploma courses namely Civil, Mechanical, Electrical & Electronics and Electronics and Communication and computer Engineering, with an intake of 60 students in each branch together with 20 per cent of students through lateral entry. Besides, we have been offering part time diploma courses since the academic year 1978-79.

 
 Hostel Facility
Our college has separate hostel for boys and girls. Principal is the warden of the hostel and the Deputy Warden helps the warden in all aspects. There is a Residential Tutor who helps the Deputy Warden and supervises the students and monitors the discipline in the hostel.

Providing opportunities for placement in addition to empowering students to face the competitive world is a moral obligation of any educational institution. A job Mela was conducted in our college, jointly by our institution and the National Board on our campus on 30th October 2007. Forty companies from all over India participated in it and 40 candidates were recruited. Besides Job Mela, campus interviews were held by scores of reputed companies all the year round. In July, five students from Electrical and Electronics Engineering Branch and two students from Mechanical Engineering Branch were selected for placement by Voltas ltd. In August, the number of selected candidates increased into sixteen at an interview held by Larson Toubro Ltd and HCL Infosystem Ltd. In December seven students got placement through Off-campus interviews conducted by CSC India (P) Ltd, and Essar company (P) peak in January and February with the selection of 82 students by Mando Brakcs (P) Ltd, Royal Seema (P) Ltd, Kadorgajans Construction Ltd Eureka Forbes (P) Ltd, My best wishes for all who got placed through campus interview.