[Assam] Technical education in Assam ( The Assam Tribune, 29.08.2007)

Wed Aug 29 05:48:38 PDT 2007

<The answer is obviously the two engineering colleges in Guwahati and Jorhat. If the Government does not show any interest in infrastructure development of these two colleges, definitely quality of our human resources will deteriorate and it will affect our economy by increasing unemployment problem. 

—Yours etc., A RETIRED TEACHER, Assam Engineering College, Guwahati.>

Respected RETIRED TEACHER,
You should have known the day you joined -some 35 years before you retired;
That Govt is not educated-cannot possibly teach you how to teach engineers -to Engineer Assam's future.
So did you waste your entire 35 years waiting for instructions?
Search your own heart--did YOU make it a point to Learn and Teach--what YOU  were not taught (wherever) . What you were not taught thoroughly to enable you to Criticize others' wasteful designs--which cripples your entire generation?

If you  are repenting with hung-down   head -and still would like to give back what you took and never returned - contact Yours Truly.
THERE IS STILL TIME BROTHER!
YOU and your Generation still can!
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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:44:22 +0100From: buluassam at yahoo.co.inTo: assam at assamnet.orgSubject: [Assam] Technical education in Assam ( The Assam Tribune, 29.08.2007)
Technical education in Assam
 Sir,– 
    This refers to the news item published in your esteemed daily (AT, July 10), regarding increase of seats in technical institutions of Assam and your timely editorial “Technical education” (AT, July 12) . In different meetings and forums, the Chief Minister and the Education Minister of Assam declared that this year (2007) is being observed as the “Year of Education”. The private university bill has been passed in the Assembly – different private parties are invited to open up institutions with professional courses. These steps taken by Assam Government to revamp the education scenario of the State are very much encouraging.In this context, I would like to highlight some issues related to technical education in Assam. There are about 700 seats available in two State owned engineering colleges and one NIT at Silchar. The number of aspirants against those seats are many thousands. Obviously many students every year go to other States like Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Orissa to pursue engineering courses. So, this necessitates the opening up of new engineering colleges in our State to stop brain drain as well as money drain. The opinion of our Education Minister is that “it is not possible for the government to start and run so many institutions”. This is also absolutely right. But the question is – how many engineering and other professional institutions the government can run? What does the Education Minister mean by the word ‘run’? If it is just to pay the salaries to the staff, it is okay. But in true sense, government has failed to run a single technical institution in Assam. At present, under the Technical Education Department, the Government of Assam is running two engineering colleges and seven polytechnics. If one visits the campuses of the two engineering colleges of Assam one will be surprised to see that there is no boundary wall in the campus. The student hostels and staff quarters are in uninhabitable condition. The approach road, power supply and water supply (with almost no water) are in pathetic condition. There is tremendous shortage of laboratory and class room spaces as no new building has come up in the last forty years. No official internet facility is available in both the colleges. Students themselves manage their broad band connectivity in hostels. The maintenance and running costs of labortories are raised from the students in the name of “Laboratory Fund”. Recently the Education Department has passed an order to deposit the laboratory fund to the government which is at present managed by a committee headed by the Principal. Although there are lots of brilliant engineering graduates available, almost 30 to 50 per cent faculty positions are lying vacant in different departments. The present infrastructure in both the colleges is totally inadequate for a good quality technical education. Still, Assam Engineering College has made a tremendous job by recruiting 90 per cent of their products (2007 batch) in different MNCs and PSUs. Recently the government has passed an order by which 60 seats in AEC and 20 seats in JEC have been increased. But at present, there is no additional class room and laboratory space available to accommodate those 60 students in AEC.Now the Government is talking much about opening up of private engineering colleges in Assam. This is, of course, a good decision. But, the problem is that no private engineering college in the country generally offers courses like civil, mechanical and electrical engineering. Then, who will teach these three core engineering branches in Assam? The answer is obviously the two engineering colleges in Guwahati and Jorhat. If the Government does not show any interest in infrastructure development of these two colleges, definitely quality of our human resources will deteriorate and it will affect our economy by increasing unemployment problem. 

—Yours etc., A RETIRED TEACHER, Assam Engineering College, Guwahati.

(LETTER TO THE EDITOR, The Assam Tribune,29.08.2007)

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