Construction of Sylhet MC College academic building still drags on

Construction of the 10-storey building of the Government MC College in Sylhet could not be completed even three years after its deadline, which ended in 2019.

The contractor failed his job even after extending time twice, sources informed. As the ECNEC approved the project in 2014, the Education Engineering Department (EED) floated a tender in 2017.

The then education minister Nurul Islam Nahid laid the foundation stone of the Taka 120.43 million project on August 10, 2017. But, the work started after three years, at the beginning of 2020. All it happened as some extortionist groups demanded money from the contractors, sources claimed.

The original attractive buildings of the MC College were known as 'Assam type' structures. The old pattern structures were rare ones. The old sports room and canteen were demolished for construction of the 10-storey building. Since then the institution lacks a sports room or common room for the students. The students have to organize cultural events and other programmes in open spaces.

The new building will house two seminar rooms on the ground floor and four class rooms in addition to wash room facilities on each of the floors. It will be for the English, Statistics and Islamic Studies departments. Besides, there will be an ICT lab and it will be used for classes of Physics, Chemistry and History departments.

The students are annoyed with the unusual delay in the construction of the long awaited building while the college authority has requested the EED for completing the construction work. The EED claimed that they would complete things by June this year.

However, the works are now at the finishing stage.

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