Fifth annual meet of ACTA held at Silchar

CORRESPONDENT
SILCHAR, June 2 – The fifth annual zonal conference of the Assam College Teachers’ Association (ACTA) was held at the premises of Cachar College recently. The meet was presided over by its zonal president Santosh Chakrabarty. ACTA central committee president Dr Apurba Kumar Das and Gojen Basumatary of the central committee were also present on the occasion.

In his speech as the chief guest, Prof Tapodhir Bhattacharjee, Vice-Chancellor, Assam University said that ACTA has a vital role in providing higher education. He assured that in the colleges, he will introduce semester system as it has become a national policy of the government, particularly in case of Central University and its affiliated colleges. For this, Prof Bhattacharjee urged cooperation from people of the society.

On the programme discussed about the effects of rise in the number of private colleges in every corner and due to which the government and government-aided colleges are in great trouble. The reason behind this is that private colleges offer better facility compared to government colleges. There is a natural competition among them with a view to provide better educational facilities. A feeling has grown that private institutions are more uptodate in the teaching process than the government ones.

It is also discussed that with numerous career options to choose, vocational training being imparted in private institutions, the scope in government colleges is less. Meanwhile, other speakers on the occasion expressed apprehension over the regular decline of student in-take in government colleges.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has already made it clear that it would curtail funds for the colleges by Rs 1 lakh if the number of intake in the Arts stream was less by one student and in case of Science, one student less would entail a reduction of Rs 6 lakh from the college annual fund. ASSAM TRIBUNE