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Pharmacy Course: At present 24 Private and one Govt. aided Pharmacy institutes are conducting Degree Level Pharmacy Course (B-Pharma) with total intake capacity of 1550 students per year. Similarly, 19 Private and one Govt. aided Pharmacy institutions are conducting Diploma Level Pharmacy Course with total intake capacity of 1200 students per year. Thus a total of 45 Pharmacy institutions are functioning in the State.

Polytechnic: At present, 19 government co-education polytechnic colleges and 7 women polytechnic colleges are functioning in the State. These offer diploma level programs in various engineering branches. Besides, 2 private polytechnic colleges are also functioning. These colleges are offering engineering diploma in 18 disciplines and 6 non-engineering disciplines. The total intake capacity of these institutions is 3640.

The Hon'ble Chief Minister has announced in budget speech 2006-07 that the State Government will provide free of cost land to private investors who intend to establish Polytechnic / ITI in lagging areas i.e. districts which do not have Polytechnic and Panchayat Samiti Blocks which do not have ITIs. The Government will also provide building for the private investors who intend to establish Women Polytechnic in the lagging district. Pursuant to the budget announcement the department has issued a policy in this regard and has invited proposals from the private sector. The department has approved 6 proposals for women polytechnic and 3 proposals for co-ed polytechnic under this scheme. Similarly 50 proposals for private ITI covering 50 Panchayat Samiti Blocks have also been approved under this scheme.

Industrial Training Institute (ITI): At present 126 ITIs with 11844 seats in the public sector, and 77 ITIs with 6186 seats in the private sector, are functioning in the State. The Government intends to setup ITI's at each Panchayat Samiti with the private sector participation.

 

Source: Department of Technical Education, Government of Rajasthan