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History of my college

The Government Engineering College , Thrissur a centre of technical excellence and one of most prestigious institution of Technical Education in Kerala started functioning in the Chembukkavu campus of Maharajas Technological Institute in 1957. The present college campus is spread over an area of 75 acres and is located at Ramavarmapuram which is about 5 km from the heart of Thrissur town and about 6 km from Thrissur Railway station. The foundation stone of the college was laid by late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, on 26 th April 1958. The work on the main buildings, two men's hostels and laboratories were taken up straightaway and subsequently on their completion, the classes were shifted to the present campus in October 1960. The college was formally inaugurated by the late Shri. Pattam A. Thanu Pillai, the then Chief Minister of Kerala on 2 nd February 1962. Prof.S. Rajaraman, a civil engineer of international repute and author of many engineering books was the first Principal. He along with Prof. M.P. Mathew and Prof. V.S. Nair (the then Head of the Departments of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering respectively) formed the triumvirate that gave the college a strong footing and set the pace for the onward growth and development of the college. The college, in the beginning, was affiliated to the University of Kerala . When the University of Calicut was formed in 1968, the college got affiliated to it. For a brief spell from 1977 to 1980, the college was under the academic and administrative control of the Cochin University of Science and Technology.