"Important and urgent works like issuing results and certificates and processing admissions can be done with the help of officers, teachers and daily-wage non-teaching employees," he said and added the VC should direct the principals and HoDs to attend their respective colleges and departments and resume the rest of the admission work and teaching work.
Academics point out the VC should learn from the principal of Patna Women's College who has managed to run the college. "Not that strikers did not try to disturb the Patna Women's College, but the principal's able administration prevailed over the situation," said a teacher of Patna University.
Patna University runs over 50 self-financing courses in which substantial investments have been made by students. These courses have also been adversely hit by the strike.
Strangely, the government appears to be taking its own time in dealing with the matter. The second round of talks between the striking employees and the principal secretary of human resource department, Anjani Kumar Singh, took place on Monday.
Source: Times News Network 23/July/2008
