Demand for polytechnics increasing:Minister

Hyderabad, Mar 14 (UNI) State Minister for Higher and Technical Education P Venkateshwara Rao today said the demand for polytechnics had been drastically increased with more avenues for employment and opportunities for jobs.

Launching a website at the government polytechnic here, he said as much as one lakh applications were expected this year compared to last year when 78,500 applications were received.

Seats had also been increased this year to 21,000 from last year's 20,000.

He said the facilities could be availed at 1200 centres of APonline and Rajiv Internet Centres across the state where students could obtain instant hall tickets and duplicate hall tickets even on the day of examination .

Director of Technical Education, Mr Rajendra Narendra Nimje, said the date of Common Entrance Examination for Polytechnic(CEEP) was April 22 and commencement of the online applications would start from March 14.

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