Mechi Multiple Campus

Mechi Multiple Campus (Nepali: मेची बहुमुखी क्याम्पस) is a constituent campus of Tribhuvan University in Bhadrapur municipality of Jhapa district.[1][2] Founded in 1964, it is the only constituent campus of Tribhuvan University in the district.[3] As of August 2017, 126 academic and 54 administrative staffs were employed at the college.[4] The college administration is headed by Jiwan Pokhrel, who replaced Kamal Guragain as the Campus Chief on 7 April 2020.[5][6]

Mechi Multiple Campus
मेची बहुमुखी क्याम्पस
Western entrance to the campus
TypePublic
Established1964 (2021 BS)
AffiliationTribhuvan University
PrincipalJiwan Pokhrel
Academic staff
126
Administrative staff
54
Students1,800
Address
Bhadrapur-8, Jhapa
,
Nepal
CampusRural area, 27 acres
LanguageNepali, English
NicknameMMC
Websitehttp://mechicampus.edu.np

To begin with, the college offered an Intermediate of Arts (IA) program in humanities, which was soon followed by undergraduate programs. At present, the college runs undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The intermediate programs were fully scrapped in 2010, following Tribhuvan University's decision to phase out Proficiency Certificate Level (PCL) programs from its colleges. This termination of PCL programs brought about a sharp decline in the number of students at the college.[3] In its heyday, the college had about 5,000 students.[7] Today the number is around 1,800.[8] The college gained institutional autonomy on 19 May 2017.[9] The college received the Quality Assurance and Accreditation (QAA) certification from the University Grants Commission (UGC) on 6 March 2019.

History

With inauguration by Brigadier General Bhupalman Singh Karki, Mechi Multiple Campus was established on 12 Ashwin 2021 BS (27 September 1964 CE). With no private building for the next five years, classes in those early years of inception were imparted only in the evening, in the premises of Bhadrapur Red Cross and Bhadrapur High School. The construction of college's physical infrastructure began to gather pace from 2024 BS (c. 1967 CE),[lower-alpha 1] and it took three years until completion. The college was relocated to its present place in 2027 BS (c. 1970 CE).[3]

The college celebrated its golden jubilee in the year 2071 BS.[1] The golden jubilee was commemorated with programmes and extra-curricular activities all year round, including a major three-day cultural event in Ashwin.[10] Inaugurated by the then-President Ram Baran Yadav, who was the chief guest, the cultural event saw attendance from a host of alumni, donors, politicians, and national dignitaries – including the then-Governor of Nepal Rastra Bank Yuba Raj Khatiwada, the Nepali Congress leader Krishna Prasad Sitaula, and CPN–UML's Agni Kharel.[11][12]

Campus

The campus, which spreads over an area of 16 bighas (c. 27 acres),[lower-alpha 2] is in a rural environment, about 1 km northeast of Bhadrapur Airport. The area has a mediocre access to road transportation. The campus yard constitutes a small canteen, a cricket and a football ground, a partially constructed basketball court, a tea garden, a soil test lab, an administrative building, a FSU building, and two other major buildings – one for the science faculty and the other for the rest.[1] A park featuring monuments of Province No. 1's five luminaries is being constructed inside the college premises.[13] A second building for the science faculty is also under construction. The campus is serving as a quarantine center during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal.[14][15]

Academics
Science block of Mechi Multiple Campus (2015)

The college offers the following undergraduate and postgraduate programs:[3]

Between 2068 and 2074 BS, Mechi Multiple Campus offered a unique program called Bachelor of Science in Tea Technology and Management (BScTTM), being the only college in the country to offer an undergraduate tea course.[16] A large part of Nepal’s tea industry is based in eastern Nepal, particularly in Jhapa and Ilam districts, and the program was offered with the aim of availing the requirement of qualified and skilled human resource in the tea sector.[16] Despite the enormous potential, the tea management course failed to attract students, with the enrollment dropping drastically from 23 students in the first batch to just 6 in the third batch.[17] The decrease in the number of students was attributed partly to the ineffective publicity of the academic course and partly to the uncertainties looming over its prospects.[17] The program was eventually dropped in 2074 BS.[18]

On 29 December 2016, the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) raided six colleges in Jhapa, including Mechi Multiple Campus, as per the complaints lodged at the anti-graft body that some of the professors of public colleges were teaching in private colleges alongside. Umanath Oli – the then-chief at Mechi Multiple Campus – was reported to have admitted that some professors had invested in private colleges and took classes there. He claimed that they had been doing so before the provision of requiring approval from the university monitoring commission came into effect.[19]

Politics

Students wings affiliated to the Nepal Communist Party, Nepali Congress, and Rastriya Prajatantra Party are operative in Mechi Multiple Campus. The last Free Students' Union (FSU) election was held in the campus on 1 March 2017.

Notable alumni

Some of the eminent graduates of the college include Yubaraj Khatiwada (Finance Minister of Nepal), CP Mainali (former Deputy Prime Minister), RK Mainali (politician),[20] Biswa Prakash Sharma (Nepali Congress leader),[21] Rajendra Lingden (Rastriya Prajatantra Party leader), and Arpan Sharma Kattel (Guinness World Record holder).[22]

See also

Footnotes
  1. Because Vikram Samvat leads the Gregorian calendar by 56.7 years, the CE year can be best approximated by subtracting 56.7 from the BS year and rounding it down to the nearest integral value.
  2. The bigha is a local unit of land measurement, standardized to 72,000 square feet.

References
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  2. "List of Constituent Campuses". Tribhuvan University. Archived from the original on 3 September 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  3. Basistha, Chudamani (1 September 2014). "मेची बहुमुखी क्याम्पस हिजो, आज र भोलि". sajhamanch.com. Archived from the original on 31 May 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
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  9. "Fourth Report for Disbursement Claim" (PDF). University Grants Commission. 19 June 2017.
  10. "मेची क्याम्पस भद्रपुरकाे सूचना". majheri.com (in Nepali). 22 July 2014. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
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  14. Portel, Parbat (14 May 2020). "मेचीपारि हजारभन्दा बढी नेपाली अलपत्र". ekantipur.com (in Nepali). Archived from the original on 15 June 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2020. जिल्ला प्रशासन कार्यालय झापाका अनुसार भद्रपुरको मेची बहुमुखी क्याम्पस, भद्रपुरकै कलबलगुडी, मेचीनगर नगरपालिकाको आदर्श मावि आदि क्षेत्रका क्‍वारेन्टाइनमा उनीहरुलाई व्यवस्थापन गर्ने तयारी भइरहेको छ ।
  15. Rajbansi, Arjun (21 May 2020). "झापामा संक्रमितमध्ये भारतबाट लुकीछिपी भित्रिएका बढी". ekantipur.com (in Nepali). Archived from the original on 15 June 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2020. सीमा क्षेत्रबाट लुकीछिपी भित्रिएकाहरुलाई भद्रपुरको कलवलगुडी र मेची बहुमुखी क्याम्पस, बिर्तामोडको कन्चनजंघा इन्स्टिच्युट, शिवसताक्षीको राष्ट्रिय रमणीय मावि, दमकको मानसरोवर कलेजको क्वारेन्टाइनमा राखिएका छन् ।
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