| INTRODUCTION: |
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The
Silapathar College was established way back in 1979 at the cost of immense material,
financial and physical contributions and unparalleled dedication shown by the
ever enthusiastic local people of this remote and backward area in the .district
of Dhemaji (Assam). The composition of population in and around Silapathar area
comprises mainly Scheduled Tribes (70%),10% Scheduled Caste and other economically,
socially and educationally backward communities. They rendered valuable contributions
to the foundation and development of the college. |
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is noteworthy to mention here that Silapathar College is one of the premier educational
institutions of the district imparting Under Graduate and Higher Secondary level
of education in Arts stream. |
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Now,
it is focusing its attention vigorously on maintaining high standard and quality
of education to its ever increasing student community despite its limited resources
and infrastructure facilities. The College Management Body is also deeply examining
the necessity and probability of expanding its vision by introducing Post Graduate
Programmes in certain departments considering the difficulties faced by the students
in surface communication during floods, which is a recurring phenomenon in this
part of the country. We are also trying our best to generate resourceful man power
to its optimum level so that we can build this college as an excellent centre
of higher learning and research in the days to come. |
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After
a long dedicated service rendered by the family of teaching and non-teaching staff
of the college as well as the public of the area, the Government of Assam finally
brought the college under Deficit System of Grant-in-aid in 1992 and subsequently
it was registered under 2(f) and 12(b) of the UGC Act, 1956, so as to accommodate
it for obtaining financial and other assistance from the University Grants Commission. |
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| GOALS
AND OBJECTIVES: |
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Silapathar
College is situated at a place in and around which backward communities like ST,
SC, OBC, MOBC and other economically backward communities are striving for higher
education. Keeping in view their disadvantages in the field of higher education
and inability to afford to send their sons and daughters/wards to the institutions
located at remote towns, they established the college. |
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| The
College, therefore, has the avowed mission of fulfilling the following goals and
objectives: |
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| a. | To
impart higher education of Under-Graduate level in Arts Programmes to the students
of the area (Silapathar) mostly belonging to backward communities such as ST,
S.C., O.B.C., M.O.B.C., etc. Apart from these communities, it also encapsulates
Arunachalese tribes and economically poor class of general people in its target
groups. | | b. | To
provide higher education to the students at the lowest possible rate of fee other
than the ones fixed by Dibrugarh University and the Directorate of Higher Education,
Govt. of Assam from time to time. | | c. | To
augment an academically congenial environment in and around Silapathar. | | d. | To
keep the people in touch with the rapidly changing scenario of higher education
in the country and abroad. |
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| The
College, therefore, makes attempts to provide quality education to socially, economically
and educationally disadvantaged groups of people of rural background. It embodies
in its management system equal participation of both boys and girls in every event
related to the college. |
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| THE
COLLEGE EMBLEM AND MOTTO: |
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The
college emblem bears a host of meaning. The uneven wheel which dominates the emblem
with black spot in it stands for unequal progress and dynamism of modern civilization.
The burning lamp (pradip) amidst darkness (black spot) in the wheel symbolises
light of knowledge -knowledge is power. The conical cap in the shape of the fore
of a pipal leave on the wheel signifies the height or peak of modern civilization'
that has made way beyond stars. The pipal tree, on the other hand, is a symbol
of Indian heritage of meditation or contemplation. The band on which the sentence
"alok pathar abhiyatree ami' is inscribed in Assamese script meaning "we
strive to reach light (knowledge) through impenetrable way" is obliquely
folded at the bottom as a base on which the name "Silapathar College"
is inscribed. The diagonal part of the band which embraces both the wheel and
the cap together' indicates the motto of the college. In the area of Silapathar
where man's outlook is submerged in the waves of darkness of ignorance due to
unequal growth of the country, the college seeks to achieve excellence through
perseverance and meditation. Every member of the Silapathar College family (Teachers,
Staff and students), therefore, tries to foster the ideal of perseverance and
excellence of human potential. |
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