General norms for institutes for the conduct of

D.1.3.Building Space for Instructional Area
The course structure of any technical institution degree program will include lectures, tutorials, drawing and design work, laboratory work and seminars / colloquium. The institutions must have adequate building areas for all these instructional activities.
According to the model curriculum, during different semesters, the total number of hours per week for which the student is to have contact with the teacher will vary between 27 to 34. In view of this, for the instructional schedule, if spread over a period of 34 hours a week, the institutions can work for six hours from Monday to Friday and for four hours on Saturdays. (* In technical institution the period is envisaged to be of one hour's duration.)
In case of academic course the student strength in a theory class should not exceed 40. The class be divided into smaller groups of 20 in case 15 students for the senior and a teacher is assigned to each group. In case of tutorial work, these smaller groups must be accommodated in separate rooms.
For drawing and design assignments, the class can have a maximum size of 40 students but one teacher must be assigned to each group of 15 to 20 students for the junior / senior classes as in the case of tutorial and practical classes.
The seminars/colloquium of the senior students must be conducted with the entire class of a particular discipline.
The model curriculum lays considerable stress on undergraduate project work. It provides 2-3 hours in the seventh semester for project work and 12-16 hours in the eighth semester. Though the students are to work on the assigned project work consulting the teacher-supervisor whenever required.

In the case of workshop practice classes for junior students, which emphasise the skill component of the training, the classes will have to be divided into smaller groups and work assigned in different shops. Considering this specific nature of training, the workshop practice classes of junior students can have maximum batch strength of 20 students. However, senior class (i.e. V, VI, VII & VIII semester) must have a batch strength of 1 5 students as in the case of any other laboratory.