SHILLONG, March 17: The state Cabinet on Friday passed and adopted a cabinet memo to rename the Captain Williamson Sangma University to Capt Williamson Sangma State University.
Revealing this, government spokesperson Paul Lyngdoh said, “Fundamentally, the issue here is we have created the university in 2011 with emphasis on high-quality education, in the area of engineering, life sciences etc., but today the Cabinet took up the matter of establishing its first state-run university, which means that fundamentally we have decided to bring this into the Cabinet…the captain Williamson Sangma Technical University Tura now will become Captain Williamson Sangma State University.”
“Since this is the first state university, we will offer courses in higher education in the field of humanity, commerce, general science, engineering, physical sciences, life sciences, technology and related matters. The proposal has been okayed and our efforts now will be to try and strengthen the various departments so that this university becomes a success story,” he added.
Lyngdoh also informed that the Captain Williamson Sangma Technical University Amendment Bill will be placed on the table of the House to rename the university.
When asked how long it will take for the university to be functional, Lyngdoh said, “We have already passed and adopted a cabinet memo to change the technical university into a state university. What comes next is the infrastructure, the staff, the facility; these will fall in place.” He further informed that once the university is made functional, affiliation of colleges will happen.
Meanwhile, the cabinet also gave its nod to the enhancement of grants in aid of pre-primary schools.
“This has been a long-pending grievance of the pre-primary teachers of altogether 710 such schools and we have decided to enhance from the present Rs 12,000 to Rs 18,000 for all teachers belonging to the pre-primary school level,” he said.
