Five new residential colleges would be opened in five cities of the State announced State Higher Education Minister Prem Prakash Pandey while inaugurating the building of Government Polytechnic Institute, Mahasamund here on Friday. “The State government has come up with a scheme for promoting higher education and resources for youth in Chhattisgarh. Fifty percent of seats in these colleges will be reserved for students from rural background,” he stated.
The Minister also administered oath to student union of the Polytechnic Institute. Notably, the institute building has been completed at a cost of Rs9.97 crore. On an experimental basis, for the first time, the Chhattisgarh government is going to establish residential colleges wherein all kind of facilities will be available for students, he said.
“We are paying special attention on higher education and very soon vacant posts of 966 assistant professors and 664 lecturers in Polytechnic colleges will be filled,” Pandey said, adding, the process for filling these posts has already been started. He informed that for providing employment oriented education to youths in all districts, State livelihood colleges have been established. Under this scheme, 25 colleges are functioning and 697 different trades have been identified where less educated youths will be provided training in their favourite trade.