A meeting of the alumni association of the Government Science College, Chhatrapur, was held in the college premises on Sunday.
Association president Braja Mohan Acharya presided over the meeting. Members discussed threadbare on different problems of the college and the measures required for their solution. It also discussed issues like increase of membership of the alumni association, construction of a room for the office of the association, undertaking social works and sensitising local public for all round development of the region.
While speaking on the occasion, most members expressed their serious concern over delay in filling up of a large number of teaching and non-teaching posts which are lying vacant for years causing serious impediments in the growth of the college as well in imparting quality education.
The meeting decided to apprise the Government about the early filling of all vacant posts and opening of more number of job-oriented and professional courses to benefit the local students in getting jobs. later, the meeting unanimously nominated the new office bearers.
Those nominated include Braja Mohan Acharya as president, Rankanidhi Behera as vice-president, Sameer Kumar Acharya as secretary, Sudhir Kumar Sahu as joint secretary and Chinmaya Kumar Das as treasurer respectively. Besides, the association also nominated former presidents of the association Debendranath Sahu and Chittaranjan Behera as advisors.
In addition, nine members were elected to the executive council of the association.They are P Dharma Reddy, Narayana Panda, Santosh Mishra, Prasant Panda, lakshminarayan Panda, Sukanta Kumar Sahu, Manoj Kumar Sahu, Manoj Padhi and Atal Bihari Pattnaik, respectively.