‘The guilty won’t be spared’: Tripura Minister Kishor Barman sets up team to probe fake fee cards row in Govt college 

The allegation was raised by a few students of Ramthakur College of Agartala in the West Tripura district, where fake fee cards were purportedly used during undergraduate admissions this year.

“After taking charge as Higher Education minister, I conducted a review meeting at the state level. After the meeting, a decision was taken to visit all the universities under the Higher Education Department or state government to assess their present situation, their facilities, their problems, and the progress of the universities regarding the implementation of the National Education Policy and the kind of infrastructure required to adhere to the norms,” Barman said.

Barman took stock of the infrastructure at the university and later interacted with the authorities and students of the MBB University, named after the state’s last ruler, Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Debbarma. During the interaction, the students and faculty laid thrust on ways to improve the quality of the institute through state-of-the-art amenities.

The minister said that as part of strengthening the university, there are plans to bring additional colleges, which are presently under Tripura University (central university), under MBB University. The government will also implement the decisions taken in the budget to develop the institute, he said.

The minister said that he also plans to visit private academic institutions to assess whether better things can be implemented there.