Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 9: Government Polytechnic, Bikram Chowk (Jammu) has bagged the ‘Outstanding Institution Award’ at National level in a grand ceremony conducted at National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research (NITTTR), Chandigarh on its 57th Annual Day function.
The award is given by NITTTR every year to the best polytechnics and engineering colleges in the country whose performance during the year is the best.
Arun Bangotra, Principal of Government Polytechnic Bikram Chowk (Jammu) received the award from Gulab Chand Kataria, Governor of Punjab and Administrator of UT Chandigarh. The Principal was accompanied by Sukhdeep Singh, HoD Civil Engineering.
Dr Binod Kumar Kanaujia (Director, NIT Jalandhar) and Dr Bhola Ram Gurjar (Director NITTTR) were present in the function.
The award was given to Government Polytechnic Jammu for its remarkable performance during the academic year 2023-24 in various aspects like, academics, industries linkages, placements, MoUs, entrepreneurship activities, seminars and other co-curricular and extra-curricular activities conducted during the year 2023-24.
Earlier also, the faculty and staff of the institution had won many National and International awards during the year. Research papers, book chapters, text books were published by the staff. The college has organized various seminars/workshops/conferences, expert talks, short term programmes and various social activities like plantation drives, Swachh Bharat programmes, sports activities, Yoga etc during the year 2023-24.