A Framework for Computerization of Punjab Technical Education System for Financial Assistance to Underrepresented Students

Indian technical education system consists of three levels: Industrial Training Institutes (ITI), Polytechnic Colleges (Diploma), and Engineering Colleges (Degree). Also for postgraduate studies, Masters and PhD programs are available at university level. There are a large number of underrepresented students on the basis of caste, income, and communities they belong. These students are not academically very sound and have average grades. Therefore government is funding their engineering education through various financial assistance schemes. Such students look for courses of their choice and for funding their education interests. Educational institutions develop solutions to handle such large amount of student data ranging from enrollments, scholarships, academic content, literature search, testing, results, and finally placements of these students. There was a need for developing framework for computerization with a view to manage huge amounts of student data which is multiplying every year in the state and country as a whole. Such data require a lot of integrity and scalability, memory-saving schema for hardware and software platforms for the needy institutions along with a lot of mobility. In this paper a new framework for computerization of Punjab Technical Education has been suggested using modern-day database technologies rather than conventional ones. Results show that the new framework is easy to use through mobile phones, tablets, and laptops and also a lot of memory have been saved along with demonstration of data integrity, security, and improvement of response time, scalability, and also authorized accessibility anywhere.