Kohima, April 10 (EMN): The timing could not be any worse for Kohima Science College (KSC), with two of its laboratory rooms reduced to ashes on the night of April 3, and the team from National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) having arrived today for their second phase of assessment.
Talking to Eastern Mirror, principal of KSC, Dr I Anungla Aier said: “This is a terrible time for us with the destruction (by the fire) and the NAAC assessment”. The college authorities’ primary concern right now, she said, was presenting the college “properly” to the NAAC team whose inspections come once in five years. The NAAC inspections starts Tuesday, she informed.
When asked if the college has received any help to reconstruct the building, Dr Aier said it has received some help from few individuals and well-wishers from in and around Jotsoma village. Even the teachers as well as the non-teaching staffs have come forward to donate Rs 10,000 each to the college, she informed.
Aier said that the college authorities were trying their best to make the two laboratories presentable by clearing and cleaning it up with whatever funds they have managed to raise internally.
She informed that apart from the building that was destroyed in the fire, the losses incurred from the scientific equipments which were burnt down came to more than Rs 70 lakh (as per the old rates). However, she said, the replacement would come at a much higher price as per the current market rates.
Expressing concern over the approaching exams and the need for equipments, she said that the college authorities have talked with the officials concerned who, in turn, have assured to “work something” to help rebuild the college soon.
It may be mentioned that two laboratory rooms (Physics and Chemistry) of Kohima Science College, Jotsoma were completely destroyed in a fire that broke out in the wee hours of April 3 last.
Though the exact cause of the fire could not ascertained, it was suspected that the fire must have started from the worn out electrical wires.
Fifty-six years old Kohima Science College, Jotsoma is an acclaimed institute for undergraduate science education in the state, which was recognized in 1956 and set up in the year 1961. Since then, the college has been consistently engaged at improving the standards of science education in the state.
