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Patna,(BiharTimes): Following Union Human Resources Development minister Kapil Sibal’s offer to discuss the location of Central University of Bihar a meeting was held in New Delhi between him and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday.
Both agreed on the idea of twin campuses, though they continued to disagree on where to locate the main campus. |
However, both Sibal and Nitish agreed to meet again and talk more. Sibal is understood to have offered to set up a campus in Motihari, with the main campus in Gaya. But the Bihar chief minister reiterated his position that CUB must be set up in Motihari with a campus in Gaya. His solution that two central universities be set up in Bihar was not acceptable to the HRD minister.
Nitish said that he could not back down as the state government had made a commitment to set up the university in Motihari. He said the state had already acquired land in Motihari for the university.
However, reports from New Delhi quoting sources in HRD ministry said that Sibal’s push for Gaya as the main centre comes from its recent experience of remote locations of central universities in Tamil Nadu and Odisha. Once established, these universities had trouble attracting faculty and students. The Central University of Odisha located in Koraput had a sanctioned strength of 48 faculty members but managed to get only 10, while the Tamil Nadu Central University in Thiruvarur had a sanctioned strength of 24 faculty members but had filled only six.
Though Bihar Assembly has sometimes back passed a resolution favouring CUB in Motihari the ruling NDA legislature party is divided on the issue as a large number of MLAs from Magadh division––Gaya falls within it––tacitly support the movement for CUB in Gaya.
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