The city of wisdom

The Scotland of India the most civilised city of North-East- Shillong has had a low profile in last couple of years in terms of quality education. The Britisher’s paradise, which was much in limelight in English education, once upon a time could only develop North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) initially after independence. But the educational hub was stand still thereafter for long due to the absence of viable education policy & centre’s back-up. Apart from that due to emergence of insurgency in some parts and a bit discrimination took the toll.
In the past, the city was a favourite destination for innumerable students across the country & outside as well. But with the decline in quality, militancy in neighboring states, group clashes and lack of safety & security, brought drastic drop in the number of students coming from outside. But it seems, the knowledge city once again rising after learning from it’s own mistakes. The state govt. is also reviewing the present education policy having formed a high power committee to bring back the lost glory.
The committee shall take up the task framing comprehensive education policy by involving renowned academicians and also shall incorporate suggestions of the public in general. The state govt is also highly encouraged by the centre’s initiative of establishing world class institution like Indian Institute of Management (IIM) & National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) in Shillong which was a bone of contention and the state was in logger head with Assam for quite sometime to bring these institutional to its fold.
Shillong was a knowledge city of the India & now it is going to become a city of wisdom by its shear collective endeavour of promoting higher & professional education in a big way. Though it has number of private educational institutions, it lacks a comprehensive controlling mechanism for imparting equity education. With state govt. present attention, the state may devise a befitting policy soon. Apart from that already positive steps have been taken by the govt. to provide safety and security to outside students, with all these happenings may we expect that the lost city of knowledge shall become a glorious city of wisdom.