Bir Raghav Moran Government Model College yet to Overcome Teething Problems

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DOOMDOOMA: Bir Raghav Moran Government Model College which was started from the academic session 2020-21 with 458 students in its enrollment at the temporary campus of the newly-constructed boys' hostel of Doomdooma College as per instruction of the State Government, is yet to start permanent construction at its permanent site.

The college was sanctioned by the State Government in view of the heavy rush of the students for admission in the only degree college of the locality which had to cater to the needs of three legislative assembly constituencies i.e. Doomdooma, Sadiya and Digboi. As around 1,400 students pass out from Higher Secondary steam every year, so arrangements had to be made for morning section for pass courses only. Yet this stop-gap arrangement too proved to be insufficient in no time and the government was compelled to rethink on the matter in the face of vehement democratic movements launched by students belonging to different ethnic communities, especially, the tea-tribes students' body.

On the other hand, the new college in its temporary set up has capacity to accommodate 175-200 students only. Needless to say, because of coming up of the new Government College, the burden of Doomdooma College lessened to a great extent. But this has posed as a great challenge for the new college so far as infrastructural facilities are concerned.

In view of this, ADC (Education) Sushanta Dutta, Circle Officer Rananmay Bharadwaj, and Circle Officer (attached) Suranjita Sarmah discussed the various problems that the college faced for the academic session 2021-22 with Principal Dr Amarjit Saikia and the other faculty members recently. They also discussed the matters related to construction at the permanent site of the college for which the government has already allotted a plot of land on the outskirts of Doomdooma town. But the construction could not be taken up there due to vehement public protest. As the Deputy Commissioner of Tinsukia is the chairman of the governing body of the college, he is learnt to have taken up the matter with the newly-elected MLA of Doomdooma constituency, Rupesh Goala to sort out the difficulties.

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