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| Pathania lobbies for degree colleges at Majalta, Basantgarh | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
NEW DELHI, July 10 – Virtually pushing the issue of grant of Degree Colleges at Majalta and Basantgarh in the Centre’s court, R.S. Pathania, senior vice-president, J & K Pradesh Youth Congress, during his three-day’s stay at national capital has called on a series of union cabinet ministers and central leaders while questioning the very wisdom and sanctity of state government’s decision of approval of twenty-two degree colleges in J & K.
He submitted detailed memorandums in this regard to Union HRD minister, Kapil Sabil, Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Chairman ICCR Karan Singh, Congress Working Committee member and I/C J & K affairs, Mohan Prakash, and other senior Congress leaders at New Delhi seeking issuance of an addendum and including the names of Majalta and Basantgarh in the list of about-to-be opened Degree Colleges in J & K. He impressed upon the party leaders that the state government has sanctioned Degree Colleges at less deserving locations while leaving more deserving ones.
Whereas, proposed Degree College at Majalta shall feed pass-outs of as many as ten Higher Secondary Schools and five Tehsils - Majalta and bordering areas of Jammu, Samba, Billawar and Ramnagar tehsils.
And right from Udhampur to Billawar on Dhar road and then upto Samba, there in no Degree College in this 150 km-odd road distance.
Also as per UGC norms each Tehsil has to get a Degree College whereas the newly-opened Majalta Tehsil has no Degree College.
Unless a Degree College is opened in Majalta, government is not justified in opening second/third Degree Colleges in other tehsils, that even on purely political considerations in abject violation of set norms and standards.
Whereas the hilly and backward sub-division of Dudu, Latti and Basantgarh also fully qualifies for setting up of a degree College under centrally sponsored scheme ‘Establishment of Model Degree Colleges in Educationally Backward districts’ as have been set up in eleven other locations of J & K.
As the students hailing from the area have to face an uphill task in pursuing their higher studies, either at Ramnagar or Udhampur. And those who have no economic support to carry on their studies have to drop their studies at higher secondary level. Worse more, Udhampur had long back been enlisted as an ‘educationally backward district’ and no College has been opened in this district.
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