Luit Valley Academy, the only institute in Jorhat district whose student ranked among the top 10 in this year’s higher secondary examination, has much to cheer about and look forward to as it completes a decade of academic excellence.
The institute recently smashed its decade-old record of 95 per cent pass percentage and recorded 100 per cent success in the science and commerce streams and 99 per cent pass percentage in the arts stream.
According to principal Dhruba Jyoti Goswami, strict discipline, regular assessments of students through four in-house tests each year, student-profiling and remedial classes are the reasons behind the good performance.
“We do not allow students to ride motorcycles or carry cell phones, a violation of which results in payment of fines,” the principal said.
Goswami, who took over the responsibility a couple of years ago, said he had been following the rules laid down by the founder principal (late) Biman Baruah and trying to improve on those.
In the wake of Luit Valley’s good performance, the Assam Higher Secondary Education Council has permitted the junior college to hold the higher secondary examination on its own premise, the only private institute in greater Jorhat to be allowed to do so.
The academy has recently completed the construction of a three-storied building and now has three modern laboratories for physics, chemistry and biology and a computer lab with 22 PCs and a well-stocked, spacious library.
“From 30 students in the first batch we now have over 900 students in the three streams with four sections each in the first and second years of science,” Goswami said.
The director of the academy, Runu Baruah, said the institute was committed to promoting science and has recently inaugurated an Integrated Entrance Coaching Cell where students are given guidance so that they can sit for medical and engineering entrance exams.
On the future plans of the college, Baruah said installing of CCTV cameras was something which had been discussed by the Luit Academic Development Society which runs the college.
The college has a canteen and hostels with limited seats for boys and girls and it also boasts of a hydraulic fire fighting system with overhead tank of water and fire hydrants on the ground level.
What the college lacks is a spacious playground. Since 2009, after Biman Baruah, the founder principal, died in a road accident, the college has started an All Assam Prize Money Debate Contest in his name held annually on September 6. The first prize for the best group is Rs 12,000.
The institute plans to open Classes IX and X in keeping with the state government directive that every high school in the state should develop the higher secondary level which would now include Classes IX, X, XI and XII. The move was a bid to remove the higher secondary level and allow the colleges to implement the semester system according to UGC rules.
“We are working on this,” the principal said.
