L D College may double seats in automobile engineering course

At present, the college has 30 seats in Bachelor of Engineering Automobile. The college management has now requested the number of seats to be increased to 60.

Earlier, the college management had requested the AICTE to permit them to increase the number of seats in Masters of Engineering Automobile from 18.

But the council did not give the permission stating that it was not possible to increase the number of seats there.

It is therefore, possible that the number of seats in Masters course may increase in other engineering institutes of the State.

8220;At present, L D College of Engineering is the only institute in the State where Masters of Engineering Automobile is taught. But now, AICTE will consider other engineering institutes too, for this course,8221; said M N Patel, principal of L D College of Engineering.

In Gujarat, automobile engineering is taught at institutes in Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar and Surat. Now, Modasa has also joined the race.

8220;There is no doubt that after the announcement of Tata8217;s Nano project in the State, everyone is looking at the automobile sector. The request that we made to AICTE is also an effect of that,8221; Patel said.

He said: 8220;Until now, the craze towards automobile studies, especially in the car sector, was not much. But things have changed now. We are not the only institute asking AICTE to increase the number of seats in the automobile discipline.8221;

He added, 8220;Now, I am sure students will also be able to get good placements and we will also able to contribute to Nano project8217;s requirements.8221;