level, to start with, in the overall perspective of general education with a view to develop an integrated personality. To make the instruction and training oriented towards creating in the students an awareness of and meeting the technological and socio-economic needs of the country. To promote research effort among various faculties, preferably on inter-disciplinary projects and undertake post- graduate instruction and training, keeping in view the needs of technology. To promote co-operation with industry and other sectors of economy logical growth and taking special note of the requirements of Regional Development. To maintain an all India character in regard to student admissions and requirement of faculty of high quality. To act as an important link in the interaction between the Central and State sectors of technical education. The Regional Engineering Colleges These are large-sized institutions judged by the standards then prevailing in the country. The considerations that weighed in this decision were : A large-sized college would be more efficient than the equivalent small colleges, The proposed colleges have to meet the additional requirements of the country as a whole and for that purpose should have to function on an all-India basis. Therefore, the smaller they are in number and the larger in size, the better, and For the same reason as in (2) their location is important from an all-India point of view. It was decided that the 9 new colleges should be established so that there were on an average 2 in each region, as follows: Later, however, the college proposed for Hyderabad was established in Warangal. It was initially the intention that a college is to be established in Delhi in order to take over the degree courses in engineering and technology at the Delhi College of Engineering (DCE) now known as Delhi Technological University (DTU) and that the college should be developed only for degree courses both on full- time and part-time basis. However, the college at Delhi became a separate entity by itself and in its place the Regional Engineering College at Srinagar, J&K in the Northern Region was established. Thus, the 9 Regional Engineering Colleges in the first phase, came to be established. Central Engineering Colleges Thus, 15 Regional Engineering Colleges were established one in each of the major States. The dates and places in the various States where they were established are as follows:- The colleges were intended to have all-India character and