Lakshmi Narain College of Technology

Lakshmi Narain College of Technology (LNCT) is a private self-financing engineering and management college at Kalchuri Nagar on Raisen Road, Bhopal. The H. K. Kalchuri Education Trust started it in 1994, and AICTE approves its programmes under permanent ID 1-5800621. Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya affiliates its B.E., M.Tech and MCA courses, while the MBA is affiliated to Barkatullah University. It is a different institution from LNCT University, LNCT and Science and LNCT Excellence, which belong to the same group. The college website cites NBA accreditation for its CSE, ECE, electrical and electronics, mechanical and civil programmes, and NIRF 2025 placed it in the 201-300 band of the Engineering category.

AICTE's 2026-27 letter approves 1,620 first-year B.E. seats across eight branches: Computer Science and Engineering (360), CSE with AI and Machine Learning (360), Electronics and Communication (240), CSE with AI and Data Science (180), Mechanical (180), Civil (120), Electrical and Electronics (120) and Electronics and Communication with Advanced Communication Technology (60). M.Tech runs in six fields with 30 seats each, and separate AICTE letters cover an MBA (360 seats) and an MCA (300 seats). Data the college submitted for NIRF 2026 reports 5,500 undergraduates and 213 postgraduates, and 756 of the 1,193 undergraduates who finished in 2024-25 were placed, at a median salary of Rs 5.5 lakh. Admission goes through Madhya Pradesh DTE counselling on JEE Main, GATE and CMAT merit.