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RANGIA: No private B.Ed college of Assam will be provincialized further. Instead of provincializing private B. Ed College, government will start new B. Ed College or introduce B. Ed course in the existing college of Assam. This was declared by State Education Minister Siddhartha Bhattacharya in meeting held at Rangia College auditorium on Thursday. The meeting was organized on the occasion of the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the Postgraduate (PG) building complex of Rangia College.
In his inaugural speech, the minister praised the history of Rangia College community and Bhabesh Kalita, local MLA, who is also the Minister of State for Revenue, Irrigation. There must be some discipline in educational institutions, the Education Minister said. He advised the Rangia College authority to start disaster management course in the college.
The Education Minister inaugurated the meeting with lighting the lamp in presence of Bhabesh Kalita, Bhabendra Nath Deka, the president of the governing body of the college, and Dwijendra Nath Deka, the Principal in-charge of the college. The minister further said the new PG building would be a dream come true for the hundreds of aspiring students of the locality in particular and the entire north Kamrup district as a whole in pursuing their higher education under one roof after completion of graduation.
"The State government is doing its best in ensuring to provide value based education through higher education institutes. The Rangia College is going to have such a PG complex housed with different departments for the benefit of the students. Rangia College should think of introducing some value based vocational courses having employability options for the students under the proposed structure of PG courses from the next academic session," he said.
The minister, recalling his father's association with the founder president of Rangia College and former State Minister, Siddhinah Sarma, pointed to the need of devotion and sacrifice in the minds of the teachers to render quality teaching rather opting the job just as a profession only. While, pointing to the opening of B.Ed colleges, the minister said that in case of opening of a new B.ED college in the present time, the Assam Government would decide its feasibility, whether to start or not. "The Assam Government is thinking in the line of opening B.Ed courses in those colleges having full-fledged education department at their UG level, which will accommodate not only the B.Ed aspirants but will also help financially weak students to get their B.Ed degree at affordable cost. I complement the entire Rangia College community once again for their endeavour to maintain the campus with nearly 4,000 odd students mostly coming from rural areas," said the minister and added that the Assam Government would look into the related affairs and do the needful for sanctioning of the vacant posts of the college.
Earlier, local MLA and Minister of State for Irrigation and Revenue, Bhabesh Kalita, speaking on the need of PG courses in Rangia College, said he had allocated entire Rs.10 crore share under the goodwill umbrella of signature campaign project initiated by Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal in all the respective 126 constituencies for the betterment of education and the society. Rangia constituency will be the education hub in the near future, he declared. College governing body president, former Principal of Rangia College and former Padadhikar of Srimanta Shankadev Sangha, Bhabendra Nath Deka also recollected the college history.
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