GCT Peshawar 4.84

Since its independence, Pakistan faced many challenges and one of them was in the field of Engineering & Technology. At that time, few industries existed in Pakistan. It was felt by the government of Pakistan that engineering & Technology is of vital importance for socio-economic development of a country. To meet the growing demand of rapidly changing and technologically oriented world, the government of Pakistan stood determined to train its manpower technically. The government in 1954 invited Ford Foundation of America to make study of the need of technical persons in industry. The report showed that there was an acute shortage of technical personnel in the country. The government took immediate action in the light of the report submitted by the Ford Foundation and established three institutes in Karachi, Dhaka and Rawalpindi. The passed out graduates from polytechnics were meant to assists the engineers in industry / field and also to bridge the gap between engineers and skilled workers. Now there are hundreds of technical institutes in the country, imparting technical education to train the manpower. Government College of Technology, Peshawar is the biggest technical institute in the province, working under the Directorate General of Technical Education & Manpower Training Government Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Started in 1959, as a Government Technical Institute, with a few students, it is now grown up as Government College of Technology since 1981, running diploma to bachelor level course in different fields of Engineering & Technology. The College is situated on Kohat Road, nearly two & a half kilometers from Cantt Railway Station. It has a land of 24 acres (approximately) having large beautiful buildings. It consists of Administration Block beside large classrooms, workshops / Labs, Computer Labs etc. in order to cope up with growing needs of the age. The college has its own mosque, dispensary, staff hostel / colony and two hostels for students, having a capacity to accommodate 200 students.

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