Engineering, medical, polytechnic centres to come up in Assam

Three egineering and medical colleges each, 21 polytechnics and 15 industrial training institutes would be set up in Assam in the future.
Hoisting the National Flag on the 65th Republic Day here, Assam Governor Janaki Ballav Patnaik said, "Three new engineering colleges at Nagaon, Nalbari and Udalguri are proposed to be set up."
The academic session of the Indian Institute of Information Technology has commenced from this financial year, he said.
"To create more access to technical education in the state, establishment of 21 new polytechnics in 21 districts under a centrally sponsored scheme has been finalised and construction work have been started," Patnaik said.

On health education, the Governor said construction work of Assam Hills Medical College and Research Institute at Diphu has already begun.
"In case of Dhubri and Lakhimpur Medical Colleges, formal proposal for land acquisition has already been taken up. Government has accorded approval for Kokrajhar Medical College," he said.

The government has signed an agreement with Narayan Hridalaya to set up a super speciality hospital under the public-private-partnership mode, while construction work for establishing a 200-bedded cancer hospital at Guwahati Medical College Hospital is in progress, he added.
On skill development, Patnaik said the government has planned to have one Industrial Training Institute (ITI) in each unserviced block to meet growing demand of manpower.

"...15 new ITIs are under construction," he added.
On the tourism sector, an Institute of Hotel Management and Catering Technology is being set up in Jorhat, he said.
The Governor said pupil-teacher ratio in lower and upper primary schools were brought down with appointment of 8,866 Teacher's Eligibility Test qualified candidates.
"The services of 21,300 teaching and non-teaching staff have been provincialised. In the secondary education sector, 1,554 numbers of venture secondary schools have been provincialised... 1,680 graduate teachers have been appointed during 2013," he added.