Shah Polytechnic"), offering engineering diplomas (in the same branches as the degree college) of three-year duration to students who had completed class 10 of the Indian school education system.

The administrative and financial offices of both the degree college and the diploma polytechnic continued to be the same till 2010, housed in the old campus.

In 2012, the adjoining "Veermata Hiraben P. Shah College of Pharmacy" (also managed by the Parshvanath Charitable Trust and affiliated to the University of Mumbai) was closed down.

Located in Kasarvadavali Naka on Ghodbunder Road, nearby places of interest include the shopping complex having HyperCity Mall, BIG MegaMart, McDonald's fast food restaurant, etc.

At some distance from Kasarvadavli, the natural forest cover of Sanjay Gandhi National Park starts growing.

Admissions to the seats (not reserved for the Jain religious minority) of the first year of undergraduate engineering programs (for students completing class 12) were carried out via the Centralized Admissions Process (CAP) of the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) of the state government of Maharashtra.

The admissions to the seats reserved for the Jain religious minority were also carried out using scores of engineering entrance examinations, but they were privately managed by the college.

Its facilities included CNC machines, Master CAM licensed copies of Ansys 6.4, I-ideas AutoCAD-2004 in the CAD/CAM laboratory setup, etc.

The CAD/CAM aided lab had 25 systems connected with True colour Resolution monitors of 21 inches, Digital Plotter, Scanner.

The labs were equipped with specialist software such as Oracle, Microsoft Visual Studio, Java, the Adobe Creative Suite and many other key products.

The department facilities include the following:[12] Windows 2003, Novell NetWare 3.12, MS-DOS 6.22, Red Hat Linux versions 7.1, 8.0, 9.0.

The college also had an annual cultural festival named "Blitzkrieg" (meaning "lightning war" in German).

It included various events like debates, quizzes, rangoli-making contest, slow-biking "race", picture-gathering contest named "Picomania" (inspired from reality TV shows like The Amazing Race), singing, dancing and drama competitions, student fashion shows, etc.

It was envisioned to be a multilingual magazine, with student articles in 4 languages: English, Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati.

However, due to the uncertainty over the matter of the college being allowed to function, the actual publishing and printing of the magazine never happened.

The college was an associate member of INDEST AICTE Consortium, and had subscribed for 42 national and 21 international journals.

[18] Activities of the cell included: To improve the research and development orientation of faculty members as well as students, the decisions taken by the R&D cell included the following: The college had a training and placement office to provide right career guidance to the students and helping them in selecting a proper career track.

Like in most engineering colleges of the University of Mumbai, most of the emphasis was on theory exams that constitute "external assessment" of the curriculum.

[20][21][22][23][24][25][26] In 2010, the non-teaching staff organised a strike against the management (headed by then trustee of Parshvanath Charitable Trust – Mr. Tekchand Shah) for non-payment of their salaries.

At the same time, the political party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's local branch also held a movement on college campus against then vice-principal and applied chemistry lecturer Mr. S. D. Shah for alleged harassment of some female students and staff members.

Under the new management, the college's situation improved considerably, with all essential facilities being provided to the students and staff members.

However, when it tried to do the same for the 2012–2013 academic year, the Bombay High Court refused and upheld the AICTE's order in a ruling on 22 August 2012.

[34] The hearing was expected on 29 August 2012, but it was postponed to 4 September 2012 due to late availability of the High Court order copy.

[35] Classes, examinations and other works continued at the college till December 2012, when the Supreme Court issued its verdict in favour of AICTE.

[36] Thus, PCoE had to be closed down and all current students were transferred (by the Directorate of Technical Education of the state Government of Maharashtra) to other engineering colleges of the University of Mumbai.

But the Supreme Court also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on AICTE for the delay of two years (2008–2009 and 2009–2010) in its initiative to investigate the case of the college (under the previous trustee Mr. Tekchand Shah) shifting campuses without following proper procedures.

[37] The Parshvanath Charitable Trust (PCT) wanted to start, from the academic year 2014–205, a new engineering college named A. P. Shah Institute of Technology,[38] affiliated to the University of Mumbai, on the same campus (on east side of Ghodbunder Road) where the Parshvanath College of Engineering once operated.

To grant approval, the AICTE had sought, among other documents, a certificate in a particular format from the sub-divisional magistrate or collector or tehsildar.

The court ruled in PCT's favour, saying that since the trust was not at fault for not producing the certificate, the AICTE should process its application without it.

It has also clarified that "in the event of the AICTE finding that the petitioners have not complied with any of the requirements in the said certificate (in the affidavit), the approval, if granted, may be cancelled".