A counselling centre of RSP College Jharia, the oldest Degree College of Dhanbad, has been launched today at the vacant Ropeway division office of the BCCL at Digwadih.

The centre will be used for all official purposes including the issuance and submission of the registration form, examination form, admission etc gradually, beginning with counselling for the ongoing Undergraduate and Postgraduate admission process.

Talking to the media at the site, Anjani Kumar Srivastava, Vice-Chancellor of Binod Bihari Mahto Koylanchal University said, “This is not only the launching of the counselling centre of the college but the beginning of the gradual shifting of the college from Belgarhia in Baliapur block to Digwadih in Jharia block.

“As part of symbolic re-establishment of colleges admission into the undergraduate and postgraduate courses will be conducted here and though classes are being held through Online mode if any study material distribution is required will also be carried out by the college administration from here” elaborated Srivastava.

“The college has a glorious history and we will extend all support to college administration to retain the old glory and further establish a new benchmark of academic excellence in future from its new campus,” said Srivastava.

Jharia MLA Purnima Singh, who was present on the site, said, “BCCL has provided 7.99 acres to the college which is sufficient to its present requirement and classes will be also conducted after the normalization of Covid 19 situation”

The students of the college will not be required to visit distant Belgarhia in Baliapur for minor official work as all the administrative work of college will gradually be performed at the counselling centre.

Notably, RSP College, established way back in 1949 at Bhagatdih area of Jharia, was shifted from its original place in Bhagatdih to a two-storey unused building of Jharia Rehabilitation and Development Authority in Belgarhia area of Baliapur block in September 2017 due to the underground fire of the adjoining Rajapur Colliery posing subsidence threat to the College.

More than 5000 students of the College of Jharia, however, faced difficulty in reaching the college at Belgarhia as it was located in a remote area devoid of any regular source of transport.

The district administration, however, after holding talks with the BCCL administration, made for the shifting of the college to Digwadih in Jharia in association with Binod Bihari Mahto Koylanchal University.