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| Thursday, Sep 18, 2008
College in urgent need of own building
Karur: The fledgling Dr. Kalaignar Government Arts College,
Kulithalai, is in urgent need of moving into its own buildings
to house the classes.
The Kulithalai Government Arts College came into being following
persistent demand for one such college on the south of River
Cauvery between Karur and Tiruchi. The presence of a Government
Arts College at Musiri across the river in Tiruchi district
had thwarted all previous attempts to have a college in Kulithalai.
But the unusual and memorable occasion of the golden jubilee
of Assembly membership of Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi presented
the townsmen, who had first sent him to the Legislative Assembly,
with the opportunity to enjoy some benefits, one of which was
grant of a new Arts college. There the people’s long time
demand and the State Government’s wishes congregated to
cause the rise in 2007 of the new Dr. Kalaignar Government Arts
College, which is certainly a boon to the poor and downtrodden
students from the Kulithalai’s rural hinterland.
At present the college is housed at the Anna Samudaya Koodam,
a cramped space that could in no way be a cause of comfort to
the teacher and the taught. In fact, the atmosphere is far from
being conducive to learning. Now over 440 students have been
accommodated in the congested Samudaya Koodam.
Meagre amenities and infrastructure is what one could expect
at a temporary shelter, that is the Koodam. It is to the credit
of the authorities that they have not allowed the situation
to slip into some sort of a government primary school of yonder
that one could have come across in rural areas - replete with
crowded classrooms full of crying and screaming children, with
the lessons getting drowned in the torrent of barely audible
voices.
Thankfully, the authorities here at the Arts College are straining
to keep order in the building that passes off for a college.
One positive development is that the State Government has allotted
a site for locating the college near Ayyarmalai on the Kulithalai-Manapparai
highway. The site could be developed as a centre of learning
if the authorities show some urgency in raising buildings to
house the college at Ayyarmalai.
It is gathered that draft proposals have been prepared for constructing
buildings to house the classrooms at an estimated cost of Rs.
10.50 crore in the initial phase. Kulithalai and even Manapparai
public would be thankful to the State Government if it could
take a lenient look at the plight of the students currently
admitted into the first two years of the graduate programmes.
Students say that the situation would take a turn for the worse
if the college moves into the third and freshers were to be
admitted to the courses in the next academic year. The present
Anna Samudaya Koodam would never be able to accommodate the
entire bunch of students.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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