Dilapidated infrastructure affects functioning of JEC
From our Correspondent
JORHAT, June 12: The dilapidated infrastructure facilities at Jorhat
Engineering College have added to the woes of upper Asom’s only institution of
its kind. Despite the stipulation by All India Council of Technical Education
requiring the improvement of the infrastructure, JEC has been lagging behind in
this respect for the last several years. Things had come to such a pass that
AICTE threatened to derecognize the institution for weak infrastructure in
2003. Since then JEC has been surviving on borrowed time, struggling to stick
to AICTE norms one year at a time.
Though the Public Works Department (Buildings) has been entrusted with the
maintenance of the main building, quarters and hostels, lack of adequate funds
has stalled renovation and repair works for years together, informed sources
pointed out. Large cracks have developed in the walls of the main building and
rainwater, too, seeps in through the ceilings of several classrooms. Tarpaulin
sheets have been used to cover the roof of the main building since the last one
year.
No repair works have been undertaken to refurbish the main building since 1984
which was celebrated as the silver jubilee year of JEC set up in 1960.
The 100-odd quarters for teachers and employees are also going to ruins due to
lack of repairs. The PWD has already certified a few of these accommodation
facilities as being unfit for habitation, the sources said. The eight hostels
for boys and the single one for girls are in poor shape, too.
There are instances of the college authorities taking donations from the
students themselves to repair the hostels. At one period of time, girl students
were accommodated at the hostel attached to Prince of Wales Institute of
Engineering and Technology at Gar Ali due to paucity of living space at the JEC
hostel. However, the problem is likely to be resolved with the construction of
a new hostel.
The improvement of the narrow road leading to JEC, situated in the Garmur area,
has assumed prime significance in the face of increased traffic on it. Though
reconstruction works have been undertaken for the first time since 1984, the
tardiness and sloppy nature of the activity will continue to inconvenience
people using the road, the sources stressed. It may be mentioned here that the
JEC Road leads to the local stations of All India Radio and Doordarshan.
Another basic facility which is lacking in the institution is a foolproof and
hygienic water supply system. Though a new supply system was built to replace
the old one, a lot of technical flaws have rendered it nonfunctional. The old
water supply system was built by the Public Health Engineering Department at
the time of the establishment of JEC.
(The Sentinel,13.06.2008)
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