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Directorate of Higher and Technical Education

Minister of Department

The Directorate of Higher & Technical Education was bifurcated from the erstwhile Directorate of Education to set up a separate establishment for dealing with the matters pertaining to Higher Education. The Government of Puducherry, to impart quality higher education has established various colleges in the Government sector and also under various Societies. Apart from this, a private initiatives in the field of higher education also being encouraged by this Government by providing No Objection Certificate for Private Managements to start Arts & Science Colleges and Professional Colleges.

There is one Central University by the name of "Pondicherry University" located at Kalapet. Most of the Government Arts & Science Colleges, Professional Colleges, Engineering & Medical colleges are affiliated to Puducherry University. It also offers various courses in its campus.

The National Institute of technology started at Karaikal during the year 2010-11 offers quality technical education that makes our students compete in the international arena

There are seven Government Arts & Science Colleges in the U.T. of Puducherry, they are, Bharathidasan Govt. College for Women, Tagore Arts College, Kanchi Mamunivar Centre for Post Graduate Studies in Puducherry Region, Avvaiyar Govt. College for Women, Arignar Anna Govt. Arts College in Karaikal Region, Mahatma Gandhi Govt. Arts College in Mahe Region and Dr. S.R.K. Govt. Arts College in Yanam Region.

There are four Arts & Science Colleges and one B.Ed. Colleges under the Puducherry Society for Higher Education as follows :

  • Perunthalaivar Kamarajar College of Education, Karaikal.
  • Indira Gandhi College of Arts & Science, Puducherry.
  • Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Govt. Arts College, Puducherry.
  • Rajiv Gandhi Arts & Science College,Puducherry.
  • Kasturba College for Women, Villianur, Puducherry.

These colleges are mainly promoted to offer job oriented courses and also to provide quality education for the rural population, courses like B.Sc.(Bio-Technology), B.Sc.(Computer Science), B.Sc (Statistics) and B.A., (Foreign Trade) and B.Sc.(Microbiology) B.B.A. (Tourism and Travel Management), B.A. (Social Work ) are offered in the above-said colleges.

As far as Professional Colleges are concerned, Puducherry Engineering College and Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Institute of Engineering and Technology established by the Government of Puducherry are the Institutions offering various B.Tech & M.Tech Courses. In the private sector, there are 11 Engineering Colleges are running in the U.T. of Puducherry.

To promote Post Matric Technical Education, the Government has established a Puducherry Institute of Post Matric Technical Education Society (PIPMATE) which runs five Polytechnic Colleges apart from that there is one Government Polytechnic viz. Motilal Nehru Government Polytechnic located at Lawspet, Puducherry

Five Polytechnic Colleges run by PIPMATE Society are:

  • Women Polytechnic College, Puducherry
  • Karaikal Polytechnic College, Karaikal
  • Indira Gandhi Polytechnic College, Mahe
  • Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Polytechnic College, Yanam
  • Women Polytechnic College, Karaikal

The main function of this Directorate is to deal with the service matters of the Lecturers, their career progression, and providing infrastructure facilities to the colleges. The academic part of the college comes under the purview of Pondicherry University. Bharathidasan Govt. College for Women, Puducherry has been granted Autonomous Status by the UGC.

Activities of The Directorate

The main function of this Directorate is to deal with the service matters of the Lecturers, their career progression, and providing infrastructure facilities to the colleges.

The main function of this Directorate is to deal with the service matters of the Lecturers, their career progression, and providing infrastructure facilities to the colleges.

Allocation of seats in various professional colleges in other States for the students of U.T. of Puducherry and sponsoring of students to the seats reserved in other states for various Medical /Engg/ and Diploma Courses through CENTAC.

Similarly admission for students for Arts and science course in Puducherry region through (CAPASC) Centralised Admission Procedure for Arts and Science Courses

Starting of new Colleges, sending proposals to Govt. for approval and issue of NOC for starting Private Professional, Engineering, Arts and Science College, B.Ed., College and starting of new Courses, etc..

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