Campus dream
becomes reality
SANTANU GHOSH
Karbi Anglong
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| Centre of learning: Assam University campus in Silchar |
July 17: A small step by
Silchar-based Assam University has become a giant leap for
education in this geographically, socially and economically
disadvantaged district.
South Assam’s only university will open its first satellite
campus in Diphu, the headquarters of Karbi Anglong,
tomorrow, giving students in these parts the opportunity to
continue higher studies from the comfort of their hometowns
and villages.
Karbi and other tribal youths have so long had to travel to
Guwahati, Shillong, Silchar or other Indian cities for
higher studies. A campus at their doorstep not only means
comfort but significantly less expenditure.
Assam University has added post-graduate studies in Assamese
literature to its curriculum for the Diphu satellite campus.
Tapodhir Bhattacharjee, the new vice-chancellor of the
university, said he was happy to have fulfilled a demand
that was not only raised by students but also the Asam
Sahitya Sabha.
The road to fulfilment was, however, anything but smooth.
The satellite campus was commissioned in 2001, but a series
of hurdles delayed its completion. When the Karbi Anglong
Autonomous District Council arranged for a 33-hectare plot
of land for the campus, the university management specified
more requirements, including a purified drinking water
facility of 1.5 lakh-litre capacity, a two-lane approach
road to the proposed site from the highway, a police outpost
and a properly demarcated boundary.
Bhattacharjee said the teething problems were over and the
autonomous council would make available another 379 acres at
a site only eight km from Diphu town.
Apart from Assamese literature, the university intends to
start employment-oriented courses in anthropology,statistics,
and earth science during the 2008-09 academic session.
The vice-chancellor said he was confident that these
“challenging courses” would attract students not only from
Assam but across the six other states of the Northeast. “Our
ultimate goal is to make the Diphu campus a fraternity of
different linguistic and racial groups.”
The main Assam University campus is at Dargakona, a
picture-perfect spot 18 km from Silchar town. Former Prime
Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao laid the institution’s
foundation stone in January 1994.
The Dargakona campus has infrastructure of the highest
quality and offers as many as 28 courses.
The classrooms, administrative building, library, computer
laboratory, hostels and residential quarters for the faculty
were all built with central grants under the 10th Plan.
The new vice-chancellor said he expected all the required
infrastructure for the satellite campus to be in place
within the next three years.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070718/asp/northeast/story_8070715.asp
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