Tripura CM opens state’s 1st English-medium govt college

Agartala: Tripura chief minister Manik Saha along with education minister Ratan Lal Nath on Tuesday inaugurated the first English medium general degree college of the state in the city with 100 intake capacity.
The five basic subjects of the arts stream, including compulsory Bengali and English, are being taught this academic session that began last month. Renovating an old Teachers’ Training College, the Tripura government has built the general degree college at the cost of over Rs 1 crore as committed in the budget this year.
Addressing the gathering, the chief minister said after the BJP-led government came to power in 2018, the state government upgraded the academic infrastructure in Tripura with a vision to make the state an education hub.A large number of schools, at least one in each of the revenue blocks, have been converted into an English medium government institution with all modern educational tools.
In the first step, the exact syllabus of CBSE has been introduced, followed by recruiting a large number of trained teachers and training up to over 40,000 existing teachers of government schools and also improving the student-teacher ratio going by the national average, Saha said.
He said the government has introduced several programmes to plug the dropout rate.