CM aims at making state edu hub

SHILLONG: Chief Minister Mukul Sangma on Friday reiterated the state government’s aim of making Meghalaya an education hub, saying that every professional course should be made available for students in the state.
“We should prepare Meghalaya to be an educational hub. Every professional course of study should be made available in our state. We don’t want our children to be studying outside,” Sangma said while laying the foundation stone of Shillong Government Engineering College on the campus of Shillong Polytechnic here on Friday.
An educational hub, the chief minister said, would also attract people from outside the state. “It will also promote tourism,” he said.
The Shillong Government Engineering College is the first of its kind to be set up in the city.
Sangma said the state government would soon lay the foundation stone of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning in Tura.
Expressing happiness on the foundation laying ceremony, he said, “Where there is a will, there is a way. It is through determination that made it happen today.”
“We hope to complete the project in record time. Meghalaya is known to complete projects before time but there were challenges as there were some that took time,” he said.
Sangma said the construction of the college should be expedited and the whole component of work should be planned well.
He pointed out that even a small building of Rs 1 crore as well as a big building of Rs 10 crore takes three years to complete.
“A Rs 150 crore-project which is the Shillong International Centre of Performing Arts is being built. We are pushing it so that we can inaugurate it by December. I don’t know if they can do it but it would be an achievement…a feather in the cap of the government,” he said.