The Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, abbreviated as JGEC, is a public autonomous engineering college established in 1961. In 2009 The Telegraph ranked Jalpaiguri Government Engineering college to be 3rd among the engineering colleges in the state of West Bengal in factors like infrastructure, placement record, and faculty.

JGEC has various Alumni Associations set up at different places. The Alumni Association conducts seminars, and workshops at a campus, arrange platforms for sponsoring scholarships and sporting events around the whole year. Prominent educationalists and professionals visit campus during seminars organized by the Alumni Association. The Association works in close association with students of JGEC and the college authorities. The Alumni Association also helps the family of distressed Alumni or current students of JGEC financially through the 'Distressed Fund' of the Association. Inter-class cricket tournament-'El Equipo', is one of the sporting events at JGEC organized and sponsored by the Alumni Association.
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