EDUCATION

Trinamul Education Cell's university demand

The Cooch Behar district unit of the Trinamul Congress Education Cell has submitted a memorandum to the state higher education minister Mr Bratya Basu in support of their 19-point charter of demands. Establishment of a university at Cooch Behar is the demand that is on the top of other demands mentioned in the memorandum.

President of the Cooch Behar district unit of the TCEC, Mr Niranjan Dutta said on Wednesday that a new university will not only be beneficial to the aspirant candidates of Cooch Behar district but also of its adjacent areas in Jalpaiguri district like Alipurduar, Kamakhyaguri, Kumargram, Falakata and some other areas in lower Assam.

The members of the delegation that recently went to Kolkata to submit the memorandum to the higher education minister consists of Mr Niranjan Dutta, Mr Alok Bhattacharjee, Mr Azimuddin Mian, Mr Harilal Ghosh and Mr Bibek Barman.

In the memorandum they also demanded arrangements for admission for all the higher secondary examination passed students in under-graduate level. Increasing of seats in honours subjects by 30 percent and steps to develop infrastructures and academic facilities in colleges are also demanded. The TCEC leaders also demanded dismantling of politically biased governing bodies of different colleges under North Bengal University.

Mr Dutta said they appealed to the minister to appoint examiners (honours) and head examiners strictly on the basis of seniority and introduction of Sanskrit at the post-graduate level in the NBU.

The TCEC leader hopes that the higher education minister would consider their 19-point demands and do the needful in the greater interest of improvement of education in Cooch Behar as well as in North Bengal.