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Jabalpur Engineering College (JEC)

Jabalpur Engineering College (JEC) is an institute located in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is the oldest technical institution in central India and the 15th-oldest in India. It is the first institute of India to have started the Electronics & Telecommunication engineering education in the country, and also the last educational institution to be set up by the British in India. The Government of Madhya Pradesh is converting it into Technical University. History JEC was established as the Government Engineering College (GEC), Jabalpur, on 7 July 1947, during the British rule in India. It was inaugurated by the then Minister for Education of the Central Provinces, S. V. Gokhale. It started functioning from the existing building of Robertson College, Jabalpur, which was constructed in the year 1916. The building now houses the Civil engineering department of JEC, and Robertson College has been shifted to its present and permanent campus in Pachpedi. Dr. S. P. Chakravarti, the serving head of the Electrical engineering department of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, was appointed as its first Principal. JEC is the first institute of India to award bachelor's degree in Electronics & Telecommunication engineering, which it is offering since its inception in 1947, and the first institute of India to award master's degrees in Microwave engineering, Telecommunications engineering and High Voltage engineering, which it is offering since 1956. It has installed the first television transmitting station of India, and the first highvoltage lab of India.