Partha Chatterjee To Form Education Monitoring Committee

Kolkata: West Bengal Minister of Education Partha Chatterjee has announced plans to form a monitoring committee for private higher educational institutes and varsities. He also confirmed that the Ministry is working on a Vision document.

Speaking at the inauguration of an education fair for engineering and technology colleges, Chatterjee said: “We are implementing plans to form the panel to inspect private institutes.”The committee will lay special emphasis on inspecting quality of education and infrastructure of the varsities. “We will not tolerate any private institute which violates the norms and regulations set down by the AICTE,” he added.

On being asked about the education vision document, Chatterjee said: “We are currently working on it. It will be published soon.” The document will reportedly review the status of the primary and higher educational institutions of the State and prepare a vision for the education sector of the State for the next 5-10 years.

To promote the quality of education and infrastructure of the education sector in the State, the Education Ministry is contemplating the establishment of “new law and mining colleges in the state.” Chatterjee added that his Ministry is also undertaking “programs to promote English and training in computers in the State-run schools.”

At a recent education fair, Ajoy Kr. Roy, the Director of the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) said that an industrial-academia meet has been proposed for the near future. “The meet will showcase the research and projects done by students from institutions across Bengal,” said Roy. Industrialists, venture capitalists and other investors will be invited.