North East India�s first physical education (PEd) college

[Pradip Kumar Datta]

  PEd college to come up at IIM site 
- Govt allocates  100 acres   A STAFF REPORTER  
    Guwahati, Aug. 26: Guwahati might have missed  out on an Indian Institute of Management but the land chosen for it will be used  to set up eastern India’s first physical education (PEd) college. 
 Dispur has offered the plot to Gwalior-based  Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education, the country’s only deemed  university that confers bachelor and post-graduate degrees in physical  education. 
 The institute’s vice-chancellor, Maj. Gen. S.N.  Mukherjee, told the media this morning that the state government had offered  them the plot.
 The announcement comes a day after chief minister  Tarun Gogoi disclosed plans to set up a physical education college here at a  meeting of the Assam Olympic Association.
 “Over the past few years, we conducted surveys in  almost all the northeastern states and their governments even offered us land.  However, overwhelming response from Gogoi last evening and ready availability of  land measuring over 100 acres adjoining the Indian Institute of Technology at a  prime location, have prompted us to finalise the site for the new campus.” Gen.  Mukherjee said. 
 “The decision has also been taken keeping in view  Guwahati’s geographical location, its accessibility and communication  facilities.” 
 The college, to be set up with central funding under  the 11th Finance Commission, will start its academic session with the  introduction of a bachelor degree course for boys and girls at the sports  complex in Sarusajai by May, 2008, before shifting to the new campus within  three years. 
 There will be no tuition fees for girls who will also  be entitled to buy food at a subsidised rate. The college will have quotas for  SC, ST and backward community students. 
 Masters degree and other courses will be introduced  later. 
 The faculty will be recruited according to the UGC  guidelines. There will local recruitment for grade C and D employees. 
 Four more colleges will be set up in eastern,  northern, southern and western India.
 “In the first year, we have decided to start work for  the college in Guwahati and the one in south zone. For the former, we have  sought a Rs 10-crore grant from the Centre in the first year,” Gen. Mukherjee  said when asked about funds allocation. 
 “The Northeast is our top priority because of its rich  talent pool. Most of those from the region who have passed out from the  Lakshmibai institute are doing extraordinarily well,” he said. The other two  physical education institutions in the country are Lakshmibai College of  Physical Education in Thiruvananthapuram and the National Institute of Sports in  Patiala. 

       
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