page_title: Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College / History
caption_attribution_description: English: This is the side view of Central Building, JGEC
context_page_description: The Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, abbreviated as JGEC, is a premiere public engineering institution established in 1961. It is situated in the Jalpaiguri, the divisional headquarters of the eight districts of North Bengal. The university offers bachelor's degrees in six branches and master's degrees in two branches of engineering. The students and alumni of JGEC are informally referred to as JGECians or Joluites. JGEC has the largest campus among all government engineering colleges in the state of West Bengal. JGEC holds two student festivals: JECLAT and Sristi.
context_section_description: Established on 7 August 1961, the Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College is the sixth oldest of all technical institutions (centrally and state funded) besides the  Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (1856, Formerly Bengal Engineering College affiliated Calcutta University),University College of Science & Technology, Calcutta University, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (1951), Jadavpur University (1955) and National Institute of Technology, Durgapur (1960, Formerly REC Durgapur) in the state of West Bengal.
  In the Initial years JGEC was under the University of Calcutta. For the period between 1963 and 1999, the college was affiliated to the University of North Bengal ,which handed over to the West Bengal University Of Technology, Founded under the West Bengal University Of Technology Act, 2000.
  In 2012, the institute was granted complete autonomy by the University Grants Commission, India, thus giving it the freedom to set its own curriculum and manage its own finances. With affiliation to the West Bengal University Of Technology, the institute is now an autonomous engineering college under The Government of West Bengal.
caption: JGEC Central Building
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