Department of Higher Education, Nagaland flagged off five college buses from the Directorate of Higher Education, Kohima on June 11.
Our Correspondent
Kohima, June 11
The Department of Higher Education, Nagaland, today flagged off five college buses at a brief programme held at the Directorate of Higher Education, Kohima.
These buses have been provided to Sao Chang College Tuensang, New Model College Mangkolemba, Zunheboto Government College, New Model College Wakching and Peren Government College.
It was flagged off by Sentiyanger Pongen, Additional Secretary, Higher & Technical Education, Nagaland in the presence of the Directorate officials and the concerned college principals.
Pongen was optimistic that the concerned colleges will make the best use of such transportation facility.
Nagaland’s Higher Education Director Dr A Nshoga informed that five college buses has been procured through the initiative of Higher Education And Tourism Minister Temjen Imna Along and expressed gratitude to the later for his concern towards the department’s goodwill mission.
Out of 19 college buses proposed to the government, the department got five this year, he said and thanked the state government for making it possible.
Transportation is one of the biggest challenges in the higher education department and this is one of the major components to promote higher education in Nagaland, he said.
Dr Nshoga said that almost all the colleges are located in the remote area for which college buses are required. Sensing this kind of necessity, he said, the department has been trying its best to provide bus for colleges across the state.
Meanwhile, the Director was hopeful that the state government will look into the matter and cover the remaining colleges in phase wise manner.
