The Changing Face of AMC
To see her child grow in front of her eyes is a delight to the mother. In a similar way, to behold the changing face of our alma mater in the past two-three years is an experience truly remarkable.
The Assam Medical College (AMC) — celebrating its 62nd year of glorious existence — has definitely had a face-lift in the last couple of years, and we as AMCians are indeed very happy. The dilapidated buildings have given way for new state-of-the-art edifices. The new surgery building complex houses all the units under its roof, providing the much-needed relief to doctors as well as to patients and their anxious attendants. In a similar way, the medicine and cardiology building complex has replaced the old medicine units scattered around the campus. An NGO has been entrusted with the job of maintenance and cleanliness of the wards and to ward off lousy pan-chewing and spitting attendants from entering the well-kept premises of the buildings. The department of obstetrics and gynaecology has even been developed with private security guards on an experimental basis since October 2008.
One cannot ignore the visible changes in the students’ library, OPD complex, tennis court, students’ hostels, and of course the levelled and wider roads inside the campus.
The construction of the Oil India lecture hall complex has been a boon for the students and faculty members of the college. The complex with its imposing exterior and an equally impressive interior has become a hub for organizing various high-level meetings and departmental conferences. For this, we are grateful to Oil India Ltd for their generous succour.
Infrastructure, developmental activities and procurement of modern equipment in keeping with the changing facets of medical teachings and diagnostics have already found their way into the AMC, and further efforts are being made to transform the AMC into a centre of excellence by 2010.
We would like to thank and congratulate the college authorities for their commendable efforts in regularizing the classes and examination schedule. The classes and examination pattern have been made at par with the best medical colleges across the country to ensure that the best students are given to the society as doctors.
In the current year, the college has seen the inauguration of the SCNU, which is the first of its kind in the Northeast, besides the inauguration of a maternity block and a 225-bed boys’ hostel. We are indeed grateful to the college authorities for responding to the needs of the students and working in accordance. This has not only strengthened the trust of the students in their teachers and the college authority but also helped to create a cordial environment where every positive and new change is welcome.
Notwithstanding the engineering and architectural changes in the college, what still remains undisturbed is the spirit of AMCians — to stand tall and together in spite of the repeated efforts of unwanted forces to destroy it. We as AMCians hope to keep alive the joyous spirit of AMC.
Some Delighted AMCians,
Dibrurarh.

Can CBI Do it?
It has been learnt from the media that the CBI has already started to interrogate arrested NDFB member Aogang Basumatary for his involvement in the terror attack at Ganeshguri on October 30. Can we now expect something concrete to come out of it so that we get to know who are the real culprits behind the October 30 terror attack in Assam?
JK Bora,
Guwahati-5.