[Assam] Call to set up technical varsity in State (The Assam Tribune, 13.01.2008)

[Buljit Buragohain]

              Call to set up technical varsity in State
By A Staff Reporter
 GUWAHATI, Jan 12 – All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) advisor Samujjal Kumar Bhattacharyya today laid emphasis on setting up a technical university in the State. He was addressing a function organised by the Assam Engineering College here today.

He said that in other states of the country, the students were provided with many facilities to pursue technical education. There are number of engineering colleges and other institutions of technical education in those states.

But the students of the State are yet to get such facilities, he said and reiterated the demand for extending a grant of Rs 100 crore to the engineering colleges of the State for their upgradation.

It needs mention here that the AASU had signed an MoU with the Friends of Assam and Seven Sisters (FASS), which works as a think-tank welfare organisation for the development of the NE region, on January 9 in a bid to enhance State’s development.

The thrust areas for joint venture as propounded by the agreement include the education sector, career-related areas and generation of self-employment. 

The MoU, signed in presence of the representatives of the Assam Unnati Sabha after an interactive session here, has said in one of its clauses that the FASS would consider the request of the AASU to find out the ways and means for setting up a full-fledged technical university in Assam and to take necessary fruitful steps in this regard.

The FASS, which has its international headquarters in Texas, USA and the Indian headquarters in the city, has said in the MoU that it would provide necessary information for studies, training opportunities abroad to the students of the State.

It has agreed also to provide information for job opportunities abroad and to conduct workshops to benefit the school, college and university students in the area of career options available globally for gainful employment, to bridge the information gap for the State’s students.

Again, the FASS has committed itself to possible cultural exchange programmes of the students and youth of Assam with foreign countries and to provide technical information and guidance for entrepreneurship development among the youths for self-employment.

The FASS will rope in people who have settled abroad for interactive sessions to share their experience and expertise with the students of Assam, says another clause of the MoU.

The MoU has stated that the AASU will provide necessary information on ground realities of the requirement of the students and youths of Assam. It will also organise necessary workshops, interactive sessions with foreign visitors or experts with the FASS co-ordinating with its pool of contacts abroad.

The students’ body will seek and identify means and plans for propagation of education in Assam and will seek encouragement and guidance from the FASS in such matters, while both the parties will publish jointly necessary booklets or information kits on various items mentioned above, says the MoU in one of its clauses.
             
  (The Assam Tribune,13.01.2008)





       
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