A team of officials of the Nilamber Pitamber University (NPU) on Saturday reached a village at latehar, 66 kilometer from Daltonganj, named Goa for inspecting a site for the proposed of Model Degree college there.
The team was headed by the pro Vice-chancellor of the NPU AN Ojha which comprised the registrar Amar Singh, convener of college development council (CCDC) RR Kishore and one more senior teacher of a college under NPU here. The team spent more than half an hour on the proposed plot of land.
Sources said this village Goa is enroute to a village known in the past as Zalim village, infamous for the 1986 massacre. Since then this village remained as stigma. However the Chatra MP Inder Singh Namdhari got it re-christened as Jagtaranpur.
The latehar administration is yet to hand over this land to the university. The district of latehar having a population of around 8 lakhs has just two affiliated degree colleges each apart by 100 kilometers. The State Government has however made available `five crore for the construction of the Model Degree college.
The plot of land is well connected by road. There is no over head electric high tension wire. Water is also available. The nearest railway station Demu is hardly five kilometers away from the site.
The plot has no major habitation on it and may not pose any law and order problem said the Pro VC A N Ojha who wished he local administration should take steps to get this land transferred to NPU. Online foundation of the Model Degree college was laid in the tenure of then HRD Minister Baidyanath Ram also the local BJP MlA.
However over the last 8 months or so Ram is politically sulking as the state BJP has almost forgotten him said one BJP leader in latehar Sources said the Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha Yachika Samiti has fixed January 7 to hear progress or development in this matter of Model Degree college to which the registrar Amar Singh and the CCDC RR Kishore are to attend. Amar Singh has confirmed NPU's presence before the Yachika Samiti.