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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Seminar deliberates educational management in the Northeast

GANGTOK, 27 June: “People of North-Eastern states are lagging behind from the rest of the country due to lack of good educational institutions in the region,” said Prof. Mahendra P. Lama, Vice Chancellor of Sikkim University.
Speaking as the chief guest at the inaugural session of the two-day “19th Annual Conference-cum-Seminar on Educational Management with Special Reference to North East India”, organized by Harka Maya College of Education here at 6th Mile, Tadong, Prof. Lama said, “Good education will give people ability to know their rights and fight for the same which is found almost nil among the people of the North-East.”

He said, “Seeing this, we are trying our best to make Sikkim University one of the best universities in the country and we will produce such scholars, can compete with the rest of the world.”
He said that the mentality of the North-Easter people is such that it wants local people be given opportunities even if they are under-qualified or incapable of handling the situations.
“At SU, we have made it open. We welcome best faculty from across the country and even from the rest of the world,” he said, adding that his University has similar thinking about the students as it is open to everyone.
Dr. Lama informed that the University has opened 27 admission centers across the country and five in neighbouring countries.
“We are planning to open up centre in China from the next academic session,” he said.
Towards teachers, he said, “The students of North-Eastern states are first generation learners, so the teachers must work hard to make them future leaders.”
He further said that North-Eastern people lack a reading habit, so it was the duty of the teachers to make the students read more.
Prof. Lama stressed that N-E students are intelligent, easily adaptable and dedicated because they are always attached to nature. He said that if “foreigners can make use of our nature and earn fame by researching our resources, why not our students utilize this advantage.”
He further contended that metropolitan cities like Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata etc. are not our mainstream. “They are there because we are here. We must educate our younger generation to make leaders. In this regards, teachers can play a vital role because bureaucrats and politicians are always busy and only the teaching community can have far-sighted vision to achieve this goal.”
Finally, the VC said that educational institutions are not manufacturing units, and that every teacher must dedicate his service towards producing hundreds of intellectuals, who can cover the gap because of which we are lagging behind from the rest of the world.
The seminar, funded by Sikkim University, North East India Education Society [NEIES], Shillong, and co-funded by Zydus, Cipla, Unichem, Hotel Mayfair and HRD Department has resource persons like Prof. SM Pany, Dr. PKS Ray from Orissa, NEIES president, Prof. PK Gupta, general secretary, Prof. SM Sungoh etc.
Earlier, the chief guest also released the bi-annual peer-reviewed journal of the college “Himalayan Journal of Social Sciences”.
Director Harkamaya College, Dr. HP Chettri and principal, Prof. Dr. PL Mohapartra, also addressed the inaugural session.

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