A BSc student of Gopi Nath Singh Mahila college, Garhwa inspired Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani to set up a girls’ hostel on the college campus under Rashtriya Ucchatar Shikchha Abhiyan (RUSA) as the girl told the Minister she travels 35 kms a day to attend her classes and this adversely affects her studies.
However, the union minister told the gathering that gross enrolment rate in this college is just 7.89 per cent, which is less than national average.
Irani on Friday launched upgraded computer lab and library in the college under Rashtriya Ucchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) online from Delhi. She had a string of campus activities online in as many as ten universities like Andhra Pradesh University of Kashmir NP University, Maharashtra University, Mizoram University, Sikkim University, and Punjab University.
Under RUSA, the women’s college has been sanctioned `2 crores by the Union HRD ministry for upgradation of computer lab and library. The girls of this college wanted courses in fashion designing nursing etc to which Irani responded most positively.
The union HRD minister wanted a model language lab to come up in colleges situated either in the states or in the union territories. She wanted national curriculum across the country to benefit students reading in remote areas too, saying her Ministry is in touch with the universities of Edinbrugh, Cambridge, Pensysylvania, Washington University and Georgia University for an international curriculum.
Development Commissioner Amit Khare along with State Higher and Technical Education Secretary Ajay Kumar Singh were in NIC office in Ranchi in conference with the Garhwa based facility. Singh read out the Jharkhand Government’s work in the advancement of higher education while Khare told Irani that the State Government has asked its colleges to go Wi Fi make a convergence of skill and higher education and has enhanced the education loan from `2.5 lacs to `4.5 lacs to come without the guarantor.
Additional Director RUSA, Jharkhand, Shambhu Dayal Singh was in Garhwa over the last few days overseeing the entire arrangement on this college campus. VC NPU AN Ojha expressed his thanks to the union HRD Minister for RUSA assistance to this lone Women’s College in Garhwa district.
Irani was all praise for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, describing him as one who is most keen to see a transformation of higher education in India. Gender sensitisation was the next big issue with the union minister of HRD. The secretary of the college Girinath Singh, a former MlA, has welcomed the decision of the union HRD Minister with regards to the girls’ hostel.