Tezpur University, Assam

Tezpur University, Assam

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Tezpur University  is a Central University located in Tezpur in the North Eastern state of As Assam, India by an act in Parliament of India in 1994. The Governor of Assam, Padmanabha Acharya is the chancellor of Tezpur University, Mihir Kanti Chaudhuri is the vice-chancellor and Manabendra Bhuyan is the pro vice-chancellor.

The establishment of Tezpur University is considered to be one of the outcomes of the Assam Accord, along with the establishment of Assam University and Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati .

Tezpur University was established, by an Act of Parliament,in 1994. The then prime minister of India,P.V.Narasimha Rao , chaired the opening of the university.

Initially, the university operated from the premises of the Darrang College, in Tezpur. For a while it also operated from the Tezpur Law College premises. Land was acquired at Napaam, a suburb of Tezpur, about 15 kilometers east, of 242 acres (0.98 square kilometers), and the premises shifted.

Kalaguru Bishnu PrasadRava (Rabha) donated an ancestral estate of 2500 bigha land received from the British government in favor of the peasants. The present-day Tezpur University stands on the land donated by him. Recently, the university acquired an additional plot of land.

Campus

The university campus is at Napaam about 15 km east of Tezpur, the headquarters of the Sonitpur district of Assam . Napaam is a rural area surrounded people of diverse caste, religion and language. The Napaam campus of the is in a plot of an area of 262 acres (1.06 km²) of land. The campus is bounded by pucca walls. Napaam is linked by a PWD road from the National Highway No. 37A at almost the midpoint between Kalia-Bhomora bridge and Misson Chariali. Tezpur is linked by road and rail with the rest of the state and the country. There is a tri-weekly flight between  Kolkata and Tezpur.

Education

Tezpur University is the first university in India to offer the course, Master of Technology in Computational Seismology (which has been discontinued now) and is also one of the few universities in India to have its own Department of Energy. The Department of Electronics is the first of its kind in India to introduce an interdisciplinary Master of Technology program in Bio-electronics, the first class of which graduated in June 2006. The university has four schools of studies which is divided into 21 departments and three special academic centres:

·                    School of Sciences

·                    School of Humanities & Social Sciences

·                    School of Management Sciences

·                    School of Engineering

Accommodation

The university has five men's hostels (listed in order of construction):

·                    Charaideo Men's Hostel: Named after the burial land of Ahom  kings in           Sivasagar,Assam.

·                    Nilachal Men's Hostel: Named after the  Nilachal Hill  in Guwahati.

·                    Kanchenjungha Men's Hostel: Named after  Kangchenunga, the third               highest mountain in the world (after  Mount Everest and K2).

·                    Patkai Men's Hostel: Named after the Patkai-Bum, the Khasi-Jaintia-              Garo and the Lushai hills mountain range in the eastern Himalayas.

·                    Saraighat C. V. Raman Men's Hostel: Named after the Saraighat                          Bridge  at      Guwahati and the famous Indian physicist and Nobel                    laureate Sir C.V.Raman.

There are seven women's hostels:

·                    Bordoichilla Women's hostel: Named after the seasonal storm that                   occurs in Assam every spring, before and after the festival of Bihu .

·                    Dhansiri Women's hostel

·                    Pragjyotika Women's Hostel

·                    Suwansiri Women's hostel

·                    Kopili Women's Hostel

·                    New Women's Hostel

·                    Pobitara Madam Curie Women's Hostel: Named after the Pobitara Wildlife Sa and the physicist Marie Curie.

There is also a married-scholars hostel, which is at present serving as a makeshift accommodation for newly recruited faculty of the university.