Negligence clouds future of Khagrachhari Govt College

Shortage of teachers hampers proper education in the district level college while lack of facilities deprives students of all sorts of co-curriculum activities as well.

Besides, absence of dormitory added a lot of suffering to the students as well as the teachers.

With as many as 29 posts lying vacant since long, the college is left with only 19 teachers to provide education to some 1,000 students.

There are two teaches out of four in English, one teacher out of four in Bangla, one teacher out of four in Economics, one teacher out of four in Sociology, two teachers out of four in political science, one teacher out of four in philosophy, two teachers out of four in History, two teachers out of four in Management, one teacher out of four in Accounting, two teachers out of three in Physics, two teachers out of three in Chemistry, two teachers out of four in Biology and two teachers out of four posts in Mathematics department.

"Shortage of teachers seriously hampers our study and very often we are to sit idle with no teacher to take our classes," said Rubel Dey, a student of intermediate first year.

An initiative was taken six years ago to introduce honours courses in management, sociology, history and political science in the college, sources said.

An academic building was constructed and money deposited to meet the requirements to introduce honour courses in 1998-2000, sources added.

Besides, the college does not have any dormitory forcing the students as well as teachers to undergo a lot of trouble while traveling from different far-flung areas of the forest clad hilly district with poor transport facilities.

There is no hall room or auditorium at the college for the students to hold cultural programmes or in-door games.

The college is situated on 12 acres of land without any playground.

With three big ditches and pit-bogs on three sides, the college premises appear as a marshy land.

A section of local people are using the ditches and pit-bogs as for fish farm when the authorities turned a blink eye to the illegal practice.

The teachers and the students said Zila Parishad Chairman Nakkhatra Lal Dev Barmon assured of filling up the ditches in 2003. But, nothing has been done in this regard so far, they added.

"When a college needs to offer all sorts of facilities, including IT, to help the students keep pace with the present day competitive world we are lagging far behind," said Principal Bodhyi Satta Dewan.