The Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering (Autonomous) Madhurawada (GVPCE) is a

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that was established in the year 1996. The educational trust, Gayatri Vidya Parishad (GVP) is formed, managed and promoted by academicians and

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, India. The college offers instruction to 1200 undergraduate students in seven branches of

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: chemical,

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electronics and communication engineering Electronics engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering which emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current fl ...

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, and ...

and

information technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology system (I ...

. The institution also offers

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program affiliated to

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada (JNTU Kakinada) is a public university, in Kakinada, East Godavari district, North of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is one of India's universities focusing on engineering. The universit ...

. All the under graduation programs are accredited by NBA in 2006

Facilities

The campus is located in

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, on the outskirts of the city of Visakhapatnam. The institute is well accessible via NH16 with the nearest railway station and airport situated in Visakhapatnam. The resources in the campus include a post office, student service center, a stationery shop, canteen and banking facilities.

Library

The library is named 'Prof. B. Sarvesvara Rao Library' after the former president of Gayatri Vidya Parishad, Emeritus Professor of Economics of

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and Economic Adviser to the Government of

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. The library is well equipped with modern facilities and resources in the form of CD/DVD-ROMs, video cassettes, online databases, micro documents, books, journals, theses, project reports, back volume of journals, and video lessons from NPTEL. The library is a member of

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under the aegis of the Ministry of Human Resource and Development and provides online access to IEL/IEEE, ASME, ACSE,

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and

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journals through DELNET. It houses 9,200 titles, 34,000 volumes, 130 national journals, 70 international journals and a digital library in which students can access 240

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journals and 600 other journals through the

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Engineering Data Units.

Medical facility

The health care center is located within the campus, with a resident doctor available during the college hours for both students and staff. The emergency ambulance services are available around the clock, with emergency cases treated at GVP Institute of Health Care and Medical Technology located at a distance of from the campus.

Hostel facility

GVP has separate hostel facilities for boys and girls, well equipped with all amenities. All the hostels have their own cooking and dining rooms supervised by different in-charges and only serve

vegetarian cuisine Vegetarian cuisine is based on food that meets vegetarian standards by not including meat and animal tissue products (such as gelatin or animal-derived rennet). Lacto-ovo vegetarianism (the most common type of vegetarianism in the Western world) ...

Sports

The institution provides has both indoor and outdoor sporting facilities with a multi-station gym, table tennis hall, and 200m track for athletics inclusive of

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and

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

turfs. Apart from them, cricket practicing nets, tennis, volleyball, basketball,

throwball Throwball is a non-contact ball sport played across a net between two teams of nine players on a rectangular court. Throwball is popular in Asia, especially on the Indian subcontinent, and was first played in India as a women's sport in Chenna ...

, and

tennikoit Tennikoit, also called Ringtennis or tenniquoits, is a sport played on a tennis-style court, with a circular rubber ring ("tennikoit", c.f. the game quoits) hurled over a net separating the two players, with each endeavoring to catch and return t ...

courts are available for the students. Gvpcollege

Rankings

The

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ranked it 188 among engineering colleges in 2020.

References

External links

Official website
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