By Firstdesptach Desk Sep 09, 2022
Agartala, Sep 9 (FD) Online admission process is going on in 23 General Degree Colleges for the academic year 2022-23 including the newly set up General Degree College (English Medium College at Agartala), Director of the Higher education Department, N.C Sharma said on Thursday.
Addressing a press conference in presence of the Secretary, Higher Education Department, he said, in the last two years online admission process has been continuing which is a transparent process and students could get hassle free admission in colleges.
This year, a total of 27,761 applications have been received for admission in the colleges. In the first round, 11,932 students took admission online. Now, the second round admission process will continue upto 12th September, 2022. In the second round, 7,809 students got allotment for admission. From 14th September, 2022, a spot round will be started for the left-out students who could not get allotment or apply for admission due to various reasons. The goal of the Department is to admit all the aspiring HS +2 passed students in Colleges. The left out students will be admitted in due course as per available intake of subjects in the spot round. The classes will start from 19th September, 2022.
From this year i.e. 2022-23, a new General Degree College (English Medium College at Agartala) will start in the temporary campus of the old DIET building in Kunjaban. There are 50 seats in each of the subjects in the college. The number of applications submitted is very less. It is expected that more students will take admission in the new college. Required number of teachers and other infrastructure facilities are being developed in the College.
With the help of NSDC and Skill Development Directorate, Tripura, Skill oriented courses have started in 11 General Degree Colleges from this year. Skill courses on Web Development, Yoga, Mushroom Cultivation, Medicinal plant are being offered in these colleges. These will be in addition to the general degree courses. The students enrolled in such skill courses will get benefit in future job prospects.
The State Government has waived off different types of Govt./Non-Govt. fees being charged in the General Degree Colleges from the Girl students from this year including enrolled Girl students of different semesters in such Colleges. However, Registration fees being collected by Tripura University and MBB University is to be decided by the Universities. Post Graduate(PG) courses in Bengali and English will be introduced with 30 intake capacity in each subject from 2022-23 in Ishwar chandra Vidyasagar College, Belonia, General Degree College, Dharmanagar, Netaji Subhas Mahavidyalaya, Udaipur, Ramkrishna Mahavidyalaya, Kailashahar, Women’s College, Agartala and Maharaja Bir Bikram College, Agartala. Tripura University has been approached for the necessary affiliation for starting the courses.
Ad-hoc Promotion through Higher Education Department as Nodal Department has been provided to different categories of 1,262 employees of Education (Higher), Education (Secondary), Education (Elementary), Youth Affairs & and Sports and Social Welfare & Social Education Departments. This consists of 861 Upper Division Clerk (Group-C), 337 Head Clerk (Group-C), 57 Office Superintendent (Group-B, Non Gazetted), 6 Accountant Officer (Group B) and 1 Senior Research Officer (Group-A).
The Department has recruited 95 faculties for General Degree Colleges and Technical Institutes comprising 38 (thirty eight) Assistant Professors for General Degree Colleges (GDCs) and 57 (fifty seven) Lecturers for Polytechnics.
Proposals for selection of eligible candidates for 22 posts of Assistant Professor in Kokborok, 20 posts of Principals for General Degree Colleges, 40 (forty) posts of Assistant Professors for General Degree Colleges, 4 posts of Principals for Diploma level Technical Institutes, 11 posts of faculties for Tripura Government Law College, Agartala, 1 post of Principal for Degree Level Technical Institute (TIT, Narsingarh), 6 posts of Assistant Professor for M.Ed. programme in Institute of Advance Studies in Education, Kunjaban have been sent to TPSC. The recruitment process is going on.