M F AHMAD
Daltonganj, April 7: “New teachers who have just joined the Nilamber Pitamber University must strive hard to hold seminars and workshops” was the first official directive to the 18 newly appointed teachers by Vice-Chancellor Dr Ram Lakhan Singh.
An interactive session with the newly appointed teachers was fixed with the VC in the lone constituent college for girls, YSN Mahila College.
Dr Shobha Kumari, a senior teacher of Life Science and present in-charge of the college welcomed the VC and the new contingent.
Registrar of NPU Dr Rakesh Kumar said the emphasis of the VC on seminars and workshops has immense relevance as seminars and workshops keep a university vibrant.
Sources said holding seminars and workshops in the NPU is a kind of exception, not a rule and perhaps this has been taken up with the new teachers sent here on the recommendation of the Jharkhand Public Service Commission in the very first interaction with the VC.
Sources said funding for holding workshops and seminars will not be a problem for the university. Just two or three departments here have a record of holding workshops and seminars in the past while others have remained silent spectators.
This university has a fair scope of topics for the workshop and seminars. The economics department can take a major lead as it can hold workshops and seminars on the proactive role of the banking sector in rural development.
Sources said the geology department here in this university can do a fantastic job which may add a feather to this university if it starts survey of the mountains and hills and hillocks located in the three districts namely Latehar, Garhwa and Palamu and finds out how these mountains hills and hillocks which come under the administrative jurisdiction of this university, can help the locals by way of eco-tourism or by regenerating the hills and hillocks which suffer a continuous attack of mining.
NPU has an anthropology department in one of its colleges in Garhwa district but no one has any idea as to how this department went nil in terms of admission and its lone teacher has been drafted for some different duty here in the Computer Section of the examination department of the university.
Palamu commissionerate, especially Latehar district, has an enormous scope of workshops and seminars on anthropological aspects but no effort has ever been made here.
The VC asking for workshops and seminars in the colleges may relive the spirit of academic pursuit in the university which is contented with only run of the mill type work.
The registrar said that among the contingent of 18 teachers, there is none for the Hindi and English departments. Around half a dozen teachers had joined here weeks ago also.
