How is PEC Chandigarh at present? Should I go for it over NIT Jalandhar?

PEC Chandigarh is a good college and has much more reputation and placements records than NIT Jalandhar, moreover Chandigarh city is a good place to live and study. 

Below given are some facts about PEC:

• It is getting renewed and lots of sports facilities are improving, new centers like Siemens Centre of excellence and solar tech park are made.
• Construction of new hostels is about to begin.
• With an extensive alumni base spreading from academic stalwarts like Satish Dhawan, Kalpana Chawla, Baadshah and Shalabh Kumar are incredible.
• Voyagers scheme where students get funded by the college to explore rural India is surely another catching thing about the college. 
• New faculties that are highly qualified are being brought up into the system with the new DSA and Director things are improving. 
• Placements are improving everywhere but if the student considers PEC and gets a branch-like CS or Mechanical then for sure they will land a core job.
• The highest package this year was 42 lacs and only a few students at top IITs got more packages than this.

The table shows a brief overview of the institution:

But the Department of Mechanical Engineering needs to improve its curriculum and teaching standards but that would be the case with academics in every college so maybe that's why self-learning has become so important. Overall PEC Chandigarh is on par with NIT Jalandhar and one can opt for PEC Chandigarh.