Not with standing tall claims new research students of Patna University were unable to start their work just because there was no meeting of the Post Graduate Research Council for the last over a year.
Now the Patna University has decided to hold the meeting of the Post Graduate Research Council in all the streams from May 28 to June 3. The PGRC meetings are being held after a long gap. For example the meeting of Social Science stream has not been held for over a year even though over 150 applications have so far been received. The scenario for other streams is more or less the same.
Be it Science, Humanities, Social Science, Commerce, Law and Education none has less than 20 applications. Normally the meeting should take place twice or thrice a year. However, this also depends on the number of applications received for research work.
Candidates had to wait too long despite clearing pre-registration test conducted by the University last year and submission of synopsis. The PGRC could not be held due to delay in its constitution. This caused a lot of inconvenience to the candidates.
The standard of research work in Bihar has already deteriorated. What is more in the last two
appointments of lecturers hardly any NET and JRF qualifier got job.
The irony is that notwithstanding the Vigilance probe and going to jail of two former chairmen of the University Service Commission, Wahab Ashrafi and S D N Singh, no headway has been made in this direction.
Source:http://bihartimes.com,29-05-08
