Guwahati (Assam) [India], September 6 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday attended the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Geetanagar College on the Srimanta Sankardev International Auditorium of Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra in Guwahati within the presence of Vice-President of India C P Radhakrishnan and Assam Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya, in accordance with a launch issued by the Chief Minister’s workplace.
On the event, the newly constructed tutorial constructing of the faculty, constructed underneath the Pradhan Mantri Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (PM-USHA), was additionally devoted to the service of the scholars.
Speaking on the event, Chief Minister Sarma stated this was C P Radhakrishnan’s first go to to Assam after assuming workplace because the Vice-President of India. He stated Radhakrishnan is a extremely skilled character within the social and political spheres of the nation, having served in parliamentary politics in addition to in essential constitutional positions similar to Governor of a number of States.
Congratulating the Principal, school members, college students and employees of Geetanagar College on the completion of fifty wonderful years, Sarma paid tributes to the establishment’s first Principal, Padma Shri awardee Indira Miri, its first President of the Governing Body, Khanindra Chandra Barua, and its first Secretary and Sahitya Akademi Award winner Suchibrata Raychaudhury.
The Chief Minister stated girls have been revered and honoured all through the ages in India’s Sanatan civilisation.
“With the objective of empowering women through the light of education, the institution was established in 1977 as Kanya Mahavidyalaya. Subsequently, the institution has been renamed as Geetanagar College. Since then, the institution has crossed five glorious decades and established a distinct identity for itself in the educational landscape of Assam,” he stated.
Sarma additionally recalled that in his tenure as Education Minister of Assam, he had the chance to be related to the provincialisation strategy of Geetanagar College.
He stated that along with offering tutorial information by textbooks, Geetanagar College has signed Memoranda of Understanding with varied premier instructional establishments, together with IIT Guwahati, for the holistic growth of its college students. These partnerships, he stated, would supply applicable steerage to college students within the coming days and put together them for the demanding nature of the office.
Lauding the faculty’s initiatives in Bonda areas of the Kamrup Metropolitan district in direction of cleanliness and grownup literacy, the Chief Minister stated the establishment has additionally demonstrated a robust sense of social duty.
He introduced that the State Government would take steps to offer monetary help of Rs 3 crore for the introduction of a Commerce stream at Geetanagar College, the discharge added.
The Chief Minister noticed that India is presently passing by a interval of historic transformation.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given the people of the country a vision of a Viksit Bharat by 2047. The younger generation is an important stakeholder in the realisation of the Prime Minister’s vision of a developed India and that the role of students is particularly significant at this crucial juncture,” he stated.
Sarma noticed that the fast development of expertise in immediately’s world has reworked the character of the office. Therefore, tutorial information alone is now not enough. It is equally important to mix information with sensible expertise, analytical considering and progressive capabilities.
He stated the State Government is creating new alternatives for the youth by initiatives such because the North East Skill Centre, the institution of a Skill University and the modernisation of polytechnics and ITIs.
He urged the youth of Assam to make full use of those alternatives and equip themselves with the required expertise and capabilities.
He additional careworn the necessity to create an ecosystem for start-ups and entrepreneurship in schools together with tutorial schooling. In this regard, he famous that the State Government has lately established a devoted Department of Innovation, Incubation and Start-ups for encouraging entrepreneurship.
He additionally stated that the tutorial capabilities of Assam’s youth have lately attracted the eye of a number of international locations. In explicit, international locations similar to Japan have expressed eager curiosity in making the youth of Assam companions of their growth.
The Chief Minister additionally introduced that the State Government has launched an initiative titled ‘CM-FLIGHT’ to facilitate foreign-language studying among the many youthful technology of Assam.
Sarma noticed that the significance of familiarising college students with rising applied sciences similar to Artificial Intelligence, 5G, Big Data, Robotics, the Internet of Things, Quantum Computing, Geonomics and 3D Printing is having a profound influence on human life and the office.
He stated the imaginative and prescient of faculties should transfer past conventional curricula and be aligned with the targets of Atmanirbhar Bharat and Atmanirbhar Assam.
Observing that Assam has begun coming into new technological fields, together with semiconductors, the Chief Minister careworn the necessity to construct a robust ecosystem for expertise. He stated that solely when such an ecosystem is created can technology-driven industries and enterprises be interested in the state.
Citing Taiwan for example, Sarma stated that if an ecosystem for semiconductors, Artificial Intelligence and knowledge processing could possibly be developed in Assam by instructional
establishments, many such enterprises could be interested in the State, enabling Assam to determine a particular id within the manufacturing sector inside a brief time period.
Calling upon the mental group to work in direction of constructing an ecosystem for Industry 4.0 expertise in Assam, the Chief Minister careworn that this may require not solely adjustments in tutorial curricula but additionally a metamorphosis within the outlook and mindset of the youthful technology.
The Chief Minister, furthermore, noticed that the first goal of schooling isn’t merely to impart information; it’s equally essential to domesticate knowledge and good character.
He stated that dedication and devotion to the nation ought to stay on the core of the schooling system.
Sarma referred to as upon the scholars to make relentless efforts to contribute to the event of the nation and use their intelligence and creativity to create new assets.
“Destructive activities and anarchy cannot be our ideals. Our objective must be creation. There is no greater joy than the joy of creation. Destruction may provide temporary satisfaction, but the joy of creation lasts a lifetime,” he stated.
In this context, the Chief Minister stated these personalities who contributed to the institution of Geetanagar College are remembered with respect even immediately.
He expressed hope that the scholars of Assam would transfer ahead with a artistic mindset and pursue new areas of alternative with curiosity, self-confidence, smooth expertise and rising fields similar to Artificial Intelligence.
Education Minister Dr Ranoj Pegu, Guwahati Lok Sabha MP Bijuli Kalita Medhi, MLA Pradyut Bordoloi, former MLA Ramendra Narayan Kalita, Chief Secretary Ravi Kota, Commissioner and Secretary, Higher Education Department, Narayan Konwar, Principal, Geetanagar College Satyajit Kalita, and a bunch of different dignitaries had been current on the event. (ANI)