Periyar Centenary Girls Polytechnic College, Thanjavur

About Periyar Centenary Girls Polytechnic College, Thanjavur

Periyar Centenary Polytechnic College was started in the year 1980 by "Periyar Maniammai Institute of Science and Technology" with a mandate to provide technical education to rural women. The administration of the college is managed by the Governing Council consisting of dignitaries representing different interests. Over the last two decades the college has registered phenomenal growth, both in magnitude and quality and has established itself as a unique and peerless institution devoted to the welfare of the student community. Besides imparting professional knowledge, the college focuses on the entrepreneurial, nurturing creativity, interpersonal communication and leadership to augment traditional learning. The college plays a vital role in generation and dissemination of knowledge, co-operation with the assistance to the industry, contribution to the technological, industrial and in application of science and technology to the society.

The polytechnic has an excellent infrastructure which includes several buildings in 20-acre campus, with well-equipped workshop and laboratories, a good reading room and library, a placement section, a seminar hall, computer centre, hostel, a guest house, sports ground and a cafeteria.

Academic autonomy is granted to the "Electronics & Communication Engineering" Department in 1991. The World Bank Assistance sanctioned to the institution has enhanced the facilities and opportunities for strengthening the infrastructure of the polytechnic. The institution is one among the polytechnics selected by Ministry of Human Resource Development to implement the Community Polytechnic Scheme from 1994..

Mission
The aim of the college is to prepare school leavers for the world of work, equipping them with knowledge, skills and attitudes that will lead to satisfying and rewarding careers and further education to rural youth. The institution seeks to accomplish the mission by Providing quality technical Diploma programmes including 'Total Quality Management and Entrepreneurial Studies'.
Broadening access to technical education through continuing education and contract training.
Preparing appropriate initiatives for pollution free environmental awareness. Covering competency based training to meet the industrial requirements. Rendering need based consultancy services of expertise. Supporting student's orientation, individualized instruction, counseling, placement and training, career guidance, personality development and continuous quality improvement. Introducing students to globalization with international organizational links.

Vision
Our Institution follows a student - centered approach, a paradigm shift on teaching learning environment to promote and improve students autonomy, to enhance ICT, to develop skills and competencies to meet the challenges of the global job market at last to serve the society.