rajkot rajkot is likely to become the education hub of saurashtra from the next academic year with four new engineering colleges to open the number of engineering colleges in saurashtra and kutch will go up to 18 of these 18 all but one are located here if we consider the amount of investment in this sector the city will stand first in the state an average of rs 12 crore investment is essential to start an engineering college and with four new colleges starting atleast rs 50 crore will be spent a teacher said and added that the technical education sector is a favourite among a few business houses and they will be investing in this sector by establishing new colleges with modern amenities the principal of an engineering college said at present there are six degree engineering colleges in the city and this number will rise to ten with four new being opened a diploma engineering college is being set up in gondal of the 18 colleges in the region 4 are government run and the rest are privately run he also said that 15 new engineering colleges are being set up in the state and few existing ones will be given permission to run colleges in shifts all these will result in the number of engineering seats giong up to 37000 from 22000 ketan marwadi of marwadi education foundation which is starting a modern engineering mba and pharmacy college from the new academic year said fee structure of the colleges will be according to shah committee recommendations between rs 22000 to rs 35000 per anum the college will is built on 8 lakh sq feet of land and is equipped with state of the art facilities source sandesh