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
Indias first physical education (PEd) college.
Dispur has offered the plot to Gwalior-based Lakshmibai National Institute of
Physical Education, the countrys only deemed university that confers bachelor
and post-graduate degrees in physical education.
The institutes 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 Guwahatis 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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