Agartala Women’s College bans mobile phones on campus

Agartala, May 11 , 2024 : To restore the academic ambiance on the campus, the Principal of Women’s College in Agartala issued a ban on the use of mobile phones other than for emergency and study purposes. This is the only girl’s college in the state, established in the heart of the city at least seven years before Tripura attained statehood. It came up to encourage females around the city to join undergraduate classes in a comfortable environment if someone does not prefer combined classes of as many as 23 departments of Arts and Science. Principal Sarbari Nath, after prohibiting the use of mobile phones on Saturday, said, “It hascome to our notice that the girls are getting addicted to mobile phones and even if the teachers pass by them, they don’t bother anything, which is affecting the teaching-learning activities and also become a threat to the security of the students.” According to her, most of the students are becoming completely phone engrossed. Even though many things happen around them, they don’t even look up – “it’s very disappointing”. Normally, she said “boys and girls come to college and talk big and loud to discuss various current issues”.
“But there is no noise on the college campus, everyone is busy on mobile. The tendency to study is decreasing. The girls are also losing their sense of social responsibility, which prompted us to put a complete ban on mobile phones in certain places of the college,” Nath underlined, adding that any disobedience to the order would result in punishment.