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.Patna,(BiharTimes): The Union human resource development (HRD) ministry on Friday rejected the Nitish government’s insistence to have the Central University of Bihar in Motihari.
Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal said in Rajya Sabha that that the University would be situated in Patna because faculty members are not ready to teach in Motihari.
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It needs to be mentioned that the Centre had already agreed to shift the off-campus branch of the Aligarh Muslim University from proposed Katihar to Kishanganj on the insistence of the chief minister Nitish Kumar. It is other thing that here too the land allotments by the state government have been much delayed.
Sibal said that central universities are established where there is connectivity. In its absence, the faculty is not ready to go there nor are there facilities that they should get.
He was answering a supplementary question from Janata Dal (United)’s Shivanand Tiwari in the Upper House.
Upon this Tiwari reportedly said that the Centre appeared to have some allergy to Mahatma Gandhi in whose name Bihar wanted the University as the he started his movement in India from Champaran.
Sibal, who was in Bihar sometimes back, said he discussed the issue with Nitish and urged the chief minister to suggest a couple of other locations but he said the university would be set up in Motihari or nowhere else.
According to earlier media reports Gaya was the other alternative site the Centre could have accepted because it is directly linked to road, rail and air to most cities of the country. A site in the vicinity of Patna, for example, across the Ganga in Vaishali district, was also acceptable. But the state government insisted on Motihari.
It needs to be mentioned that when the Centre decided to open the Nalanda International University in Nalanda district it faced a problem of faculty. Even the two names proposed for VCs, that is Ramachandra Guha and Pratap Bhanu Mehta refused to accept the post.
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