| 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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| It 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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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. |
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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. |
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To augment an academically congenial
environment in and around Silapathar.
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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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