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Guwahati, Sep 5: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said that a society could march ahead in its pursuit of knowledge when it could redeem its teachers’ pride and prestige. “The process of teaching is intrinsically intertwined with the teacher and taught. Stronger the bond, better the learning becomes,” Gogoi said on the occasion of Teachers’ Day today in a statement here.(Read:NRL contributes Rs 20 lakh to Chief Minister Relief Fund)
Gogoi observed that even in modern day world, relation between the teacher and taught should remain intact for the benefit of both. “Teaching is a devotion and a teacher should profess this devotion to make learning a treasure for the lifetime,” he said.
Observing that Teachers’ Day “gives us an opportunity to pay our gratitude and indebtedness to our teachers who always shoulder heavy responsibilities of creating and nurturing a pool of human resources in our society,” Gogoi said ideas and experiences he had gathered from his teachers had helped him immensely in his social and political life.
“As soon I started my political innings as an MP, I accorded top-most priority to education and in my first address in the Budget session of the Lok Sabha on June 3, 1971, I underlined the importance of the right of children to free and compulsory education. Today, I feel happy that the Right to Education has become an Act,” he said.
Gogoi said “I took special initiative for setting up the Tezpur University after convincing the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi for the need of a second Central University in Assam.” The peace and progress of a state or country was possible only through the development of education and consequently after becoming Chief minister in 2001 it has been one of his top priorities, Gogoi said.
The state government has been working relentlessly for the infrastructural development of the educational sector since 2001 with several schemes introduced during the period which included introduction of pension for college teachers. The government had provincialised 134 colleges during 2001 to 2015 while services of 41,531 teaching and non-teaching staff of 6,802 primary schools had also been provincialised, he said.
Adequate grants had been given to the Gauhati, Dibrugarh and Assam Agricultural Universities and Rs one crore each had been disbursed to 163 colleges for infrastructure development. Introduction of Anundoram Borooah Award, Gyanjyoti Scheme, bicycle to girl students of BPL families were among some initiatives taken by the government which had yielded a positive atmosphere in the state’s academic scenario, he said.
New Centres of Excellence for Higher Education like the Rajiv Gandhi Cooperative University, the Assam Women University, the Assam Science and Technology University, the Indian Institute of Information Technology, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, the Central Institute of Plastic Engineering and Technology and the Ancient Studies University and the National Law School had also been set up bringing about a sea-change in the academic front, he said.
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