First Government Evening College in Dakshina Kannada to be Set up in Mangalore

The first government evening college in Dakshina Kannada district will be set up at P Dayananda Pai Satish Pai Government First Grade College (GFGC), Car Street which has the highest number of admissions among government colleges in the district. This will be the first such evening college under its jurisdiction, and will cover Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Kodagu districts. It will offer courses that are in high demand, and job-oriented courses like BCom and BCA, that will have 69 and 60 seats, respectively, and has the Mangalore University syllabus. Though University College at Hampankatta has been running an evening college from the past six years, it is a constituent college of Mangalore University, while the one at GFGC is the first government evening college under the department of collegiate education’s jurisdiction, that covers three districts. The college is sanctioned under the state government’s Sandhya Shakti scheme to manage the extra rush of admissions to undergraduate courses, and cater to students in the lower income group.