Gandhinagar Institute of Technology - GIT - Gandhinagar (Gujarat)

Gandhinagar Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (GIT) had been established in the year 2006, in Gujrat, Gandhinagar. GIT Gandhinagar is affiliated to Gujarat Technological University and has been approved by AICTE. The vision of the institute is "To Develop Young Engineers with Active and Creative Minds, A Sense of Understanding and Sympathy for Others, and The Courage To Act On Their Beliefs. We Stress the Total Development of Each Students: Spiritual, Moral, Intellectual, Social, Emotional and Physical". GIT Gandhinagar had been founded under the aegis of Platinum Foundation Trust. The mission of the college is "to Treat Every Student as an Individual, To Recognize His / Her Potential and To Ensure That He / She Receives The Best Preparation to Help One Meet His /Her Career Ambitions and Goals."The Resource Centre of GIT serves primarily the faculty, students, and staff of the College.  The RC contains more than 15000 books and 70 periodicals on all subject related to Engineering, Management and general to make use for academic and non-academic purpose.  The RC has over 275 electronic journals of renowned publishers.  Access is available on campus through LAN.GTU has introduced Open Source Technology Club initiative for all the GTU affiliated colleges in collaboration with Spoken Tutorial Project-IIT Bombay. To take the benefit of this opportunity, Gandhinagar Institute of Technology has established Open Source Technologies Club (OSTC). The Spoken Tutorial Project is about teaching and learning a particular FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) like Linux, Scilab, LaTeX, PHP & MySQL, Java, C/C++, Libre Office, Inkspace, Net Beans, Libre Office Suit, Python, PHP, Scilab and many more via an easy Video tool - Spoken Tutorials. Today, SMEs and Govt. departments are moving to Open Source Software like Linux OS. Students with this knowledge will have an edge in the job market. They can also become entrepreneurs and use Open Source Software in their businesses and save money vs if they use commercial software. Net - it is a win-win situation for all and the best part, all the Trainings are conducted FREE of cost. The training has been started in July 2011 and to date around 1500+ participants took advantage of this club and certified.

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