Students from Ladakh can now avail 16 seats in various Technical Diploma Courses under the Government of India scheme for States and UTs lacking infrastructure in such Technical Education

Leh, May 28, 2024: Sixteen seats have been reserved for students from Ladakh in Diploma Level Technical courses for the academic session 2024-25 across 08 states. This is in response to the proposal by the Department of Higher Education, UT of Ladakh for inclusion of Ladakh in the Government of India scheme for reservation of seats in Engineering and Diploma Level Technical courses for States/ Union territories, which don’t have Engineering colleges and lack infrastructure in Technical Education.

The 16 seats have been reserved for the UT of Ladakh for diploma courses in Mechanical Engineering, Pharmacy, Textile Technology, Library and Information Science, Automobile Engineering, Bio-Medical Engineering and Fashion Designing respectively in institutes in the states/UTs of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Chandigarh, Karnataka and Gujarat.

Students who clear X Board exams are eligible for the Diploma courses in Mechanical Engineering, Textile Technology, Library and Information Science, Automobile Engineering, Bio-Medical Engineering and Fashion Designing, while those who clear Class XII Boards exams are eligible for the Pharmacy seats. While the CBSE results have been declared, the results of JKBOSE are yet to be declared. The applications for the scheme shall be invited immediately after the results are declared for Class X and XII under JKBOSE.

In 2023-24, for the first time, 22 seats were reserved for Degree level Engineering seats in branches Civil Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Architecture & Planning, Automobile Engineering, Electronic & Communication Engineering, Textile Technology and Mechanical Engineering in Engineering Colleges at Chandigarh, Maharashtra, Kolkata, Karnataka, Gujarat, Hyderabad and Tamil Naidu. The Department of Higher Education successfully admitted 19 students in 2023-24 across India

The scheme shall continue in 2024-25 for the benefit of students from Ladakh aspiring to pursue an Engineering Degree