Assam University, Silchar issues order asking out-station students to not proceed for the University

The Assam University, Silchar has advised all the out-station students, who were planning to return to the campus to resume offline classes, to not proceed for the University until further order. The announcement came in an official University notification modifying the earlier notification dated March 22 thereby giving a partial green signal to the commencement of offline classes.

The official notification of March 22 announced that offline classes of all post-graduate/under-graduate/integrated courses of departments belonging to Science, Technology, Performing Arts and Visual Arts of the University would commence from April 19, 2021. Then later in continuation of that notification, it was also stated that hostel accommodation to the existing hostellers only whose classes would start from April 19 including research scholars would be available from April 18. But keeping in mind the recent spike in Covid-19 cases all over the country, the University administration has decided to postpone that plan as of now.

Last year in March, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, all the schools, colleges, and universities had to close down and students and faculties residing in the campus were also asked to leave the campus for an impending strict lockdown that ensued the entire country for several months. Moreover, in the coming months when the Covid cases kept on piling up, the District Administration of Cachar decided to convert the hostels of Assam University, Silchar and the National Institute of Technology, Silchar (NITS) as Quarantine centres, for which the students had to empty their room at the eleventh hour by having to leave most of their important belongings behind in the hostel premises.

When the situation got better in the last quarter of the last year, students, as well as research scholars, repeatedly demanded the University authority to make safe arrangements for the original hostel boarders to rejoin, as the makeshift quarantine centres were not in use anymore. The authority kept on stalling that move, until March this year when they finally decided to open the doors of the University to the students as scholars. But as of now, it seems like the wait is going to be a bit more than anticipated at first.