page_title: Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College
section_title: Festivals
hierarchical_section_title: Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College / Student life and culture / Festivals
caption_attribution_description: English: T-shirt painting competition in JECLAT 2016
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: JGEC has festivals like JECLAT and Sristi. JECLAT is the annual socio-cultural fest of JGEC. It is held near the time of "Holi" festival to organize an event called Rangotsav on the day of Holi. 
   JECLAT includes social and cultural  competitions like Wall Painting competition, T-shirt painting competition, Sudoku, Creative writing, Roadies, Treasure Hunt, Chitrayan (photography & art exhibition and competition), Damsheraz (dumb charades), Dance Fest (inter-college dance competition), Music Fest (inter-college music competition), Band Blast (band music contest), Elementary (puzzle, quiz, etc. online contests)  in addition to stage shows (known as Social night) in the final night of the week-long cultural fest has some of the most powerful performances of vocals and beats from renowned artists and Bollywood chartbusters and pop songs are hosted throughout the night.
   The magnitude of JECLAT is huge and attracts an admirable participation from many colleges. The Anupam Roy Band & Rupam Islam's Fossils(Band) performed on 24 March 2016 in JECLAT 2016 "Social Night".
  The techno-management festival of JGEC is known as Sristi. It is the biggest techno-management festival of North Bengal. Events include technical workshops, seminars, and competitions. Competitions under the banner of Robotics like Robosoccer, Firebird II, Eagle Claw and Mission Entente take place. Events like Hacking and coding competitions  and Tech quiz takes place under the banner of Technozion. Various management events take place where   famous industrialists enlighten the students. Various gaming competitions commonly take place during this three-day  techno-management fest. Other than that, events like Theme Photography contest- Lens Flair, Chess competition, Sudoku competition and a special event exclusively for the Civil Engineers known as "Bridge the Gap" is held every year during Sristi.
caption: T-shirt painting competition in JECLAT 2016
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