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 States
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 States 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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