[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 16 | June 30, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036] Article: Classroom speaking challenges: it’s so hard getting the weaker students to join in Conference: ’59th All India English…

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 16 | June 30, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]

Welcome to Kota

Rajasthan Technical University, Kota feels privileged in inviting English teachers, academicians,  research scholars and students to participate in 59^th All India English Teachers’ Conference being held in collaboration with the Association for English Studies in India on 19, 20 and 21 December 2014.  RTU hopes that this congregation would provide a platform for scholarly discussions amongst learned participants and give them an opportunity to interact with eminent academicians and experts from all over India.

About Rajasthan Technical University

Rajasthan Technical University was established by an Act of State Legislature of Rajasthan, in the year 2006 in the campus of University College of Engineering, Kota (previously known as Engineering College, Kota). Located on the Rawatbhata Road, about 14 kms from Kota Railway Station and 10 kms from Kota Bus Stand, RTU has a campus sprawling over 365 acres. The University presently affiliates about two hundred colleges, offering more than three hundred technical and professional courses to approximately two lac students. The University presently offers 25 undergraduate and 20 postgraduate courses in Engineering and Architecture. In addition, postgraduate programmes in Computer Application and Management are also being offered. Recently the University has started new B. Tech. Degree programmes in Mining, Aeronautical, Petroleum and Petrochemical Engineering, keeping in view the specific needs of the state. Similarly, new M. Tech. Courses in emerging areas of Renewable Energy, Nanotechnology and Power Electronics & Drives have been started. (more…)