Engineering

Just practice well and solve a lot of previous year questions.

The first year fees at Government Polytechnic College Kelamangalam for Diploma in Mechanical Engineering is:
Admission Fees: 2Special Fees : 1000
Development Fees : 1000
Caution Deposit : 50
Misc . - 50Nss - 10Red Cross - 10
Dote verification fee - 15 Flag Day - 5
Total - 2142
Second year and third year fees (Per Year):
Special Fees Rs 1000
Development Fees Rs 1000
YRC Rs. 20
Flag Day Rs. 10
Total Rs.2030
So basically it is pretty affordable you can take addmission there!

Your percentile is good. As per the previous year cutoffs you can get Medium ranked NITs such as NIT Nagpur, NIT Raipur, NIT Bhopal, NIT Rourkela, etc. You can also get some higher ranked NITs but you may have to compromise with the branch. You can also get good IIITs such as IIIT Jabalpur, IIIT Nagpur, etc.

The most important part in IT is developing your analytical skills and having a good coding knowledge, it doesn't require you to know many coding languages, it all depends about the depth in that particular language and try to build some projects with coding. These all things will assure you an IT job with a package of around 15-20 Lacs as a fresher.

After the ITI course, the student can pursue a diploma course through lateral entry, which will take three years to complete. The second step is to sit for JEE Advanced after completing the Diploma course, after which the student is eligible to get admission in the IITs. If this method does not work, then students can use the lateral entry scheme in state engineering colleges. As the student would have already completed the diploma course, the B.Tech programme will be completed in three years.

You can definitely change after your first year at Pune University. The procedure includes fulfilling some requirements, First of all, you will need a very good aggregate in the first year. You will need NOC from your previous college. You will require your 1st-year marksheet and your class 10th and 12th mark sheets. It is really a very easy procedure, many of my friends have also followed these steps and successfully changed from one college to another without much hassle.

181 is the latest cutoff for civil lateral entry students.

No, you cannot but you have to choose PCB as subject.

Yes, it depends on college. In some college special entrance exam will be conducted.