The Community Polytechnic Scheme is a wing attached to the regular polytechnic under the direct central assistance scheme of Ministry of Human Resource Development. The scheme has been established in our institution on 2001 November. Community Polytechnic Scheme’s continuous endeavor is to promote the scheme for the benefit of youth, women, School dropouts, Scheduled castes, Scheduled tribes and other less privileged section of the society, the major focal points of the scheme is the application of science and technology in rural areas and generate self employment opportunities through informal training to build technical competency and need based courses in various trades.

» To provide community institute interface so that the science & technology inputs can be transferred to the community through skills, training, technology transfer and organization of support services.
» Ensuring for the rural society a fair scheme of benefits from the investments in technical education system and thus bringing socio economic uplift and improvement of quality of life of rural community.
» To sensitize students and faculty of polytechnics towards live problems of the community needing Science and technology inputs.

• To ascertain the felt needs of the community through techno economic social survey, job potential survey etc
• To become focal points for technology transfer
• To train youth women and other disadvantaged groups in employable skills.
• To provide technical and other support services for improving local capabilities.
• To create awareness regarding development programmes for creating problems solving environment.

› Socio Economic Survey

Community Polytechnic shall undertake the Socio economic technical survey of the area selected for activities, such a survey should lead to the determination of the felt needs and identification of the direction in which the rural development efforts are likely to bring to quicker results. Based on the outcomes of these surveys, the polytechnic should prepare detailed time bound “Annual Operational Plan” indicating therein, objectives, targets to be accomplished in measurable terms, resources needed, implementation process, complete time schedule for each activity to attain set objectives and monitoring and evaluation mechanism. ...more

› Man Power Development & training

In order that the human resource is developed for gainful employment, the training must be need based, and should provide employable skill. All training preferable is competency based and well designed through graded exercises, keeping in view the market requirements for various trades. Short term non formal modular courses of 3 to 6 months duration, depending on the local needs and commensurate with the available local resources with proper structures, yet having the desired flexibility to pave the way for self paced Open Learning Mode (OLM), should be offered ...more

› Transfer of Technologies

A bunch of technologies have been developed by various research institutions and laboratories. But, the benefits of these technologies have failed to reach the rural population. The villagers could not adopt these modern technologies and implement to improve productivity, and, in turn, their quality of life, since the process of transfer was not undertaken in a planned manner. It is in this context that the Community Polytechnics play a very significant role. ...more

› Technical Service Camps

In rural areas, a large number of equipments are being used in farm and non-farm sector. For their sustained working, proper repair and maintenance services are to be provided. They also require technical help to solve their practical problems. The Community Polytechnic helps the villagers and other agencies to take up this work by organizing service camps ...more

› Support Services

In addition to Technical Services, the villagers also needs support of other kinds for their professional improvement to widen the scope of their activities, and to enhance their productivity. The kind of support needed may vary widely from a mere psychological boost in some cases to complete guidance in acquiring loans, supply of raw materials, acquisition of necessary know-how, development or marketing and distributing facilities to others ...more

› Dissemination of Information

Assimilation and dissemination of information on rural development is another important activity. This done through the distribution of technical literature containing information useful to the rural people. For this purpose, all communication media such as leaflets, brochures, filmstrips, video films and other audio visual aids are used. ...more

Community Mela 2005

This year we conducted a community mela at our extension center, Kadakulam in connection with national festival Onam. In that mela our trainees made an exhibition on various agricultural products, hand made printed saris, kerchiefs, towels etc.

Computer awareness class for scheduled Caste/Tribe students on tribal areas

We conduct one week computer awareness camp at various villages every year typically in tribal areas. The area will be purely socially and educationally backward area. More than 50 students get its benefit every year. Our expert teachers handle classes, both theory and practical. Also we issue printed hand notes of the subject and is very helpful for the students.

The need for systematic evaluation of any scheme needs no emphasis. Control and monitoring of progress will ensure that the objectives are being realsied constantly and no deviation is taking place. It will give an opportunity to set right the deviation with no loss of time. There are several techniques developed for evaluating the progress and impact of the project. To ensure its proper implementation of the Scheme of Community Polytechnics it shall be monitored at four different levels
1. Polytechnic Level
2. State Level
3. Regional Level
4. Central Government Level

The success of very scheme depends on various factors. The main catalytic factor for the smooth running and successful implementation of the scheme at the grass root level is in the hands of the leaders. In our Community Polytechnic Scheme we are lucky to have a good team of staffs for running the scheme. Our Principal & Project coordinator, Sri. B Vijayan sir is the leading light of our scheme, by whose guidance we completed all our activities smoothly and perfectly. All of the project and core staffs are very much satisfied by his leadership. Beside this, we have a project officer, two assistant project officers and two field assistants for supervising the course.

Also it depends on the sincere cooperation and support from The State Directorates of Technical Education, Thiruvananthapuram and the Regional National Institute of Technical Teachers Training And Research, Chennai.

The Principal, Govt. Polytechnic College, Neyyattinkara. Ph No: 0471-2222935
The Project Officer, CPS, Govt. Polytechnic College, Neyyattinkara. Ph No: 0471-2226895