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Patna,(BiharTimes): Thanks to the state government’s insistence the Central University of Bihar (CUB) may literally become ‘homeless’ and may have to suspend its class after September 30.
The Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Patna, had on September 19 asked the CUB to vacate its premises where it is at present functioning.
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The agreement between the two institutes expires on September 30.
However, the Registrar of CUB, Mohammed Nihal, wrote a letter to BIT, Mesra, requesting it to reconsider its plea.
His letter also mentions that the space was allotted to the CUB on the campus of the BIT at the behest of the state government. The land too was provided to BIT by the government, and its building was constructed in a public-private-partnership mode.
The Registrar’s letter also claimed that shifting the university campus in the middle of the session would pose innumerable problems for the administration, teachers as well as students.
Students are concerned about their future. They do not know where the CUB will now go. Since the CUB is at present situated on the BIT campus near Patna Airport a large number of students started living in Raja Bazar, Samanpura and adjoining colonies. If the University goes to some other places they will once again have to rush to the nearby localities.
Though the state government is silent over the present crisis, chief minister Nitish Kumar has repeatedly been stating that the CUB would get land only in Motihari. If the state government continues to adopt the same approach the future of the CUB as well as students appear bleak.
Though three years have passed the University is yet to get land because of the dispute between the state and the Centre over the issue of location. Only recently the CUB VC Janak Pandey openly criticized the Nitish Kumar government for not allotting the land to the CUB, which started with just 25 students in a postgraduate course in Development Studies in 2009.
According to reports 18 of the students of the first batch got placement this year.
At present, the university has nine courses and 160 students. Recently it selected 11 regular faculty members in Development Studies, Computer Science, Environmental Science, Mathematics and Statistics.
It needs to be mentioned that the CUB crisis emerged at the time when media is full with stories about the Nalanda International University, which is functioning from New Delhi and not anywhere in Bihar.
Even the NIT Patna recently got a notice to vacate its campus as the state government wants to revive the Bihar College of Engineering.
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