IAF to set up engineering college in city

Air Force engineering college from next year
The Hindu

Indian Air Force has proposed to start the country's only Air Force engineering college in Bangalore in July next year. It has drawn up plans to start the college at Jalahalli, according to the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Headquarters Training Command of the Indian Air Force, Subash Bhojwani.

Speaking to reporters here on Thursday, Mr. Bhojwani said the college would fulfil the IAF's long-felt demand. It would be co-located with the Air Force Technical College at Jalahalli, he added.

The engineering college, he said, was still not authorised. "As soon as it happens, we would be taking up issues such as recognition by the All India Council for Technical Education and other universities. It might in the long-run become a deemed university by itself," he said.

The college, he said, would every year select on all-India basis 110 students who have passed the pre-university or the plus-two examination. In the four-and-half years course, the college would give theoretical and practical knowledge and comprehensively train the students as aeronautical engineers. Bulk of the recruits to the IAF would be frothis college and the rest from other engineering colleges, he said.