Tripura government will set up a new English Medium College at SCERT building soon. At the beginning the college will start with English, Bengali, Sociology, Economics, Political Science and History subjects and there will be 50 seats in each subjects said Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath in a press conference.
Besides, the minister said, process is afoot to set up more colleges across the state so that all students can get admission in colleges.
Apart from that to meet the demand of the colleges as many as 20 principals and some more lecturers will also be appointed soon, and the efforts are on to complete the appointment and posting of the lecturers to be completed before Durga Puja itself, the minister said.
Nath said, the online process for admission in general degree colleges will start from July 25 and continue till September 17.
The government has also decided to introduce new subjects in the government degree colleges from this session.
NCC subject for 30 seats will be introduced at Women’s College while Ramthakur College will get 30 seats for Botany Honours. NCC for 30 seats will be there in Government Degree College (Khumulwng) where as Geography for 20 seats, Philosophy for 20 seats, Economics for 20 seats and Physical Education for 20 seats would be introduced at Swami Vivekananda Mahavidyalaya (Mohanpur), NCC for 30 seats in Rabindranath Thakur Mahavidyalaya (Bishalgarh), Botany for 20 seats, Zoology for 20 seats, Human Physiology for 20 seats and all subjects of Bio-Science (pass) would be introduced in Teliamura Degree College, NCC for 30 seats in Kamalpur Degree College, English Honours for 20 seats and Physical Education for 30 seats would be introduced in Gandacherra Degree College, English Honours for 40 seats and NCC for 30 seats in L.T. Valley Degree College, NCC for 30 seats in Ramkrishna Mahavidyalaya (Kailashahar), Commerce for 30 seats and NCc for 30 seats would be introduced in Ambedkar College (Fatikroy), NCC for 30 seats in Dharmanagar Degree College, English Honours for 20 seats, Education Honours for 20 seats and Philosophy Honours for 10 seats would be included in Kanchanpur Degree College, NCC for 30 seats in each of Sonamura, Udaipur, Amarpur and Belonia Degree Colleges and English Honours for 20 seats in Santirbazar Degree College, Nath said.
