[Assam] Editorial about JEC

[Buljit Buragohain]

    Good news the Amar Asom has mentioned about JEC in today's Editorial.   
  You can read the editorial from the below link.
     http://assamnews.bihu.in/1785/    
  Thank you
   
  Buljit


Buljit Buragohain <buljit_buragohain at yahoo.co.in> wrote:             
Dear Sir/Madam,
   
  Please write an editorial on Jorhat Engineering College's present conditionin your paper.
   
  You can see some news about Jorhat Engineering College from the below link:
   
  http://assamnews.bihu.in/
   
   
  Thanking You.
   
  Buljit Buragohain
   
  Mobile No:09435188630
   
    Jorhat Engineering College crying for attention
>From A Correspondent
 JORHAT, Oct 9 – Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has gone on record saying that his government would give the topmost priority to the technical institutions in the State. However, the premier Jorhat Engineering College, located in his home district itself, is practically going to ruins, allegedly due to neglect. 

The only engineering institution of its kind in upper Assam, JEC came into existence in 1960. However, lack of proper attention towards the development of the college in the new era has reduced it to a struggling institution which even had faced the threat of being de-recognized by All India Council of Technical Education. 

Despite passing through such turbulent days, the Congress-led State government is yet to wake up to the genuine needs of JEC, office-bearers of Jorhat District Students’ Union said. A team of the Jorhat AASU unit visited the college recently and voiced its concern over the crumbling infrastructure there. 

Tarpaulin sheets are being used to cover the leaking roofs, JDSU general secretary Dhrubajyoti Hazarika said. A number of computer sets have been damaged by rainwater seeping in through the roofs, he added. 

The Chief Minister had announced a Rs 2-crore package in March 2005 when several students took ill after using contaminated water, the JDSU general secretary recalled. Though a sum of Rs 37 lakh was released for the construction of a water supply project, the remaining funds were never received, Hazarika maintained. To top it all, the water supply project is not working, he pointed out. 

The State government also pledged to provide Rs 10 crore to JEC in August last year, the student leader said, adding that not a single penny has reportedly been received by the college authorities till date. 

JDSU president Biren Saikia said that girl students have been forced to seek accommodation elsewhere despite the existence of a hostel for them. While 21 students are staying at the girls’ hostel of Prince of Wales Institute of Engineering and Technology, as many as 11 others have moved into their hostel superintendent’ s official quarters due to the dilapidated state of their hostel. These girl students are staying in an unsafe environment, Saikia stressed. 

The JDSU duo reiterated that such apathy on the part of the government was responsible for the flight of students from the State. The student body set October 20 as the deadline for the State government to make its stand known on the development of JEC. “Otherwise, we will forced to take to the path of agitation to restore the glory of the engineering college,” the two AASU activists warned. 

There are other problems, too, which plague JEC. Sources said that as much as 40 per cent of the total area of the college has been encroached on. The Jorhat district administration called for a survey of the landscape of JEC in 2003. A year later, a directive was also issued by the then Jorhat Deputy Commissioner for the eviction of encroachers. 

The sources further stated that the 12th Finance Commission had awarded Rs 1107.37 crore to the State Education Department for the period 2005-2010 to upgrade the facilities at the engineering colleges and polytechnics in the State. 

(The Assam Tribune, 10.10.2007)


    
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