ABOUT US
 
INTRODUCTION:
 

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.

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.

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.

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.

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:

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.

The College, therefore, has the avowed mission of fulfilling the following goals and objectives:
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.
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.
THE COLLEGE EMBLEM AND MOTTO:

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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