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Bachelor of Technology is the best course to pursue after completing Diploma. It is generally recommended to Diploma holders to apply for the B.Tech course, which I will also recommend to you. There will be no need to pursue the 4 years of B.Tech. Since you are Diploma holder you can apply for the B.Tech through lateral entry scheme. Under the lateral entry scheme, Diploma holders can take admission directly in the second year of Bachelor of Technology. There is no need to do first year. You can take advantage and apply for admission through lateral entry. Before you go ahead let me point out drawback of going with lateral entry scheme. The best engineering colleges in the country like Indian Institutes of Technology and National Institutes of Technology do not offer lateral entry admission. If you are keen on completing B.Tech from these colleges then you will have to appear for the Joint Entrance Exam. However if you don't really have any urge to take admission in IITs or NITs then go ahead with lateral entry admission. You will have to appear for Lateral Entry Engineering Test. You must have 60 percent marks in Diploma to appear for the exam. After clearing the LEET you can take admission in the seats reserved by the Engineering colleges for the lateral entry admission. There are other entrance exams apart from the LEET. Some of these exams even accept candidate with 50 percent marks.

Hello Riyaz,
Most of the aspirants are in the dilemma, whether they will get a seat or not. How much paper they should attempt? How to judge whether the paper is tough or not and so many other similar questions. What I have been telling all my students is a simple mantra. Think as if you have to attempt any one of the two consecutive questions. That means you need to attempt around 50% of the paper. Even if you can get around 40 % overall marks you should be able to score around 2500 rank which is a very decent rank for someone who is not sure whether he will get a seat or not. Therefore, just try to attempt 50%, stay calm, give your best and you will surely get a decent rank in JEE Advanced. Firstly, I would tell you about the JEE Advanced because it creates the main difference. For general category, around 50 % marks will get you some decent branch. If you want to take CSE in old IITs then you should score around 70% marks.

Hello Prasad,
Yes, Tatyasaheb Kore Institute of Technology allows admission of students in the lateral fashion directly into the second year of engineering. This is of course based on your qualifying and obtaining good marks in the Diploma examination. As you must be aware the admissions are controlled by Directorate of technical education of the Government of Maharashtra and the web address is given in the link that I am attaching in this response. I am sure after going through this link you will get all the required information about admission process in your desired institute for directly second year of engineering.
Link: http://tkietwarana.org/admission/details.aspx?title=Eligibility Criteria.
Best wishes to you.