Divine Child Polytechnic

This Institution was the most cherished dream of the Poor Sisters of Our Lady specially of our the then Principal of Divine Child High School, Sr. Matilda D’Mello. Her vision was to start a Degree College, providing education for the under privileged of our society, to give them a better future and a dignified life. This would include girls, women who are house wives and are unable to pursue higher education. Considering these problems Sr. Matilda perceived and headed towards the right goal. It was a plan to have multiple courses of varied categories and in different languages in order to help students who come from  vernacular medium. This was the motivation to start Divine Child Vocational Training Institute.

Aims & Objective

To Create a center of excellence in the field of technical education, in order to fulfill the industry & business requirements by holistically developing future achievers and performers having the right knowledge, skill & attitude towards business and life Education is undertaken by us with a view to the total development of the individual intellectual, spiritual, physical psychological, cultural, social & emotional, thus training them to be effective citizen tomorrow. To train our students to become the best professionals and entrepreneurs of today; who will lead their companies successfully into the future locally, nationally and globally. To provide programmes focusing on the holistic development of the individual with emphasis on personality grooming, and strong sense of social and environmental responsibility.

Divine Child School at first applied for the courses from the  Maharashtra State Board of Vocational Training and Education, Bandra, Mumbai in the year 2006-2007

In the year 2006 we began the Divine Child Vocational Training Institute and introduced the following Certificate courses from the Maharashtra State Board of Vocational Training and Education ;

  1. Hotel Management and Catering Technology
  2. Computer application
  3. Fashion Designing
  4. Cookery
  5. Basic and Advance Beauty Culture

Each year as we gain more and more confidence we applied for Degree and Diploma Courses from Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University Nasik and in 2008 we started the following courses:

  1. B.SC in Hotel Management and Catering Operation (Now known as Hospitality Studies and Catering Services)
  2. B.SC in Hospitality and Tourism
  3. Bachelor of Computer Application (B.C.A)
  4. Bachelor of Business Information System (B.I.S)
  5. Diploma in Fashion Designing

In the year 2011 the Polytechnic introduced

  1. M..Sc. in Hospitality and Tourism
  2. B.Sc. in Media Graphic and Animation
  3. Certificate courses in Foreign Languages  

Divine Child Polytechnic was looking forward for affiliation to Mumbai University

But it never materialized reason known to the University decision making body.

In the beginning we had few students and the number was growing steadily till Mumbai University added the following  courses in their curriculum;

B.SC in Hotel Management and Catering Operation

B.SC in Hospitality

B.C.A, M.C.A

A name makes a great marks and Divine Child is a greatest name in this Andheri locality. Just for this reason students were happy to join our institute. We provided best of facilities to our students and always guided our students with positivity, counseled and listened to their grievances. We also interacted with parents at times to help our students giving them some concession on fees and other support.

We arranged trips for them once a year. All was good till 2019 – 2020.

Every alternate year we staged a Fashion Show for our Fashion Designing and Beauty Culture students. Students of Fashion designing designed their own costume and modeled. This was done with proper choreograph, ramp walk, music, lightening and grace. At polytechnic all the required facilities were provided to all the section of the students.

Every year we had Fiesta for the Hotel Management students. HM students were prepared for their six months internship and also job training interviews in 5 Star hotels right from Taj, Maratha and Sheraton. These students who completed their internship were offered jobs simultaneously. All our students are currently working as supervisors, in-charge in department and few got placement abroad, such as Dubai, Canada, Maldives, Kuwait, Netherland, and USA. Our students gratefully remember all they have received and learnt and they feel happy to revisit their alumni.

In the Year 2017 the draw back or the turning point was the closedown of the distance Education of many YCMOU centers including Divine Child Polytechnic,

In 2018-19 we began with Madurai Kamraj University where we got number of students but it was not a reliable venture. Year 2020-2022 due to Covid 2019 the Polytechnic was not able to get new admissions.

But now we once again bounce back to our activities in various courses.