Gossaigaon College - GC Kokrajhar - GC

Infrastructure

The College has passed through 42 years since its inception and has created considerable infrastructure resources for teaching and learning. It has built up 18522 Sq.mt. building areas of the total 73 bigha and 4 katha of land (Details enclosed along with the master plan in the document section) with basic facilities for Arts and Science. Despite heavy financial constraints, the college has been shouldering the entire costs of science stream with great hardship. The College library is housed in a building of 180.25 Sq. mt. in area with reading room facilities. It has 19,406 books, a number of newspaper and journals. The steps initiated for computerization of library has been completed. Reprography, Audio-Video discs facility are also provided to the library users. The college allows the neighbouring general public to use the college library if a request for the same is made. The institution has a mechanism for improving infrastructure and learning resources implemented through the Governing Body, Planning Board and other boards, each represented with members from the teaching faculty. The institution utilizes maximum funds from UGC and resources generated from the students as building fee and development fee for the infrastructural development of the college. The college has a well furnished hygienic canteen with sufficient sitting accommodation for teachers and students to enable them to satisfy their refreshment needs during busy schedule of the college. The college has separate hostels for both boys and girls with a capacity to accommodate about 40 boys and 70 girls respectively. To meet the growing demands for more hostel accommodation, a new two storey building for girls has been constructed with reading room facilities with fund provided by the UGC. A separate Schedule Caste hostel for boys is under construction to provide accommodation to the SC/OBC students. To cope with the sports aspiration of the students, the college has provided an extensive playground for outdoor games and sports. It is located within the college premises well fortified on all sides. Football, Volley Ball, Cricket, Badminton etc. are practiced there. It is in this football ground that the Gauhati University Inter College football competition was held twice in the year 1992 and 2012 respectively and in both the occasions, the Gossaigaon College emerged as Champions. Apart from achieving victory in its home 10 Gossaigaon College, SSR ground twice, the college also won the inter college football tournament organized by Gauhati University hosted in other colleges on many occasions. The All Assam Junior Inter District Football Competition was held in the month of July, 2002 in our college football ground. Students having proficiency in games and sports and in the field of cultural activities are regularly deputed to participate in the Inter College Football and Volleyball competitions and cultural programmes organized on the occasion of Youth festival. Many of our participating students have won medals and trophies in different games and sports competitions and cultural meets at the state level. Gossaigaon College Cooperative Credit and Savings Society Limited is a well maintained, thriving and prosperous society with 44 members. The Society has an amount of more than 1 crore as its working capital. The Society offers soft loan to the tune of Rs. 8, 00,000/- (Eight lakhs) to each of its deserving members. The College has also started a welfare fund for both teaching and nonteaching employees who contribute a fixed amount of Rs.200/- (Two hundred only) every month towards the welfare fund. To maintain transparency and openness in their activities, the accounts of the College cooperative society and Employees welfare fund are duly audited by the government machinery and also by its internal auditors. The weaknesses in the area are (a) the College has not been able to provide accommodation for its staff due to financial constraints. (b) the absence of auditorium, well furnished departmental rooms and Indoor stadium has posed a problem for the functioning of departmental works and various programmes organized in the College (c) the existing administrative building is not enough for smooth functioning of the office (d) lack of well furnished class rooms and guest house is also a major problem of the College and (e) another weakness of the college is the absence of health centre within the college compound.