Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University is preparing itself to face the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (Naac) inspection on August 17.

Officials of the university are working hard to make sure it gets a good grade. The Naac team of the University Grants Commission will take stock of the administrative and 22 postgraduate departments of the university.

Proctor-cum-spokesperson Satish Kumar told The Telegraph that the university authorities were working overtime to prepare a PowerPoint presentation and other necessary formalities needed before the evaluation by the Naac team.

"The university has pumped in all its energy to attain good grades during the assessment," said Satish.

The preparations are almost complete with the vice-chancellor and other officials busy providing final touches.

The Naac team would comprise S.S. Radhwan, Ramesh Pande, G. Hez, Alok Kumar Chakrawal, N. Laxami, B Chattu, Niranjan Roy and Sumista Pani. It will start the inspection on August 17 and would likely continue the same till August 19.

"The vice-chancellor of the university, Pandit Palande, has involved the principals of colleges in Muzaffarpur such as Langat Singh College, Mahant Darshan Das Mahila College and Ramdayalu Singh College, Munshi Singh College from Motihari and RN College from Hajipur to prepare for the upcoming inspection. These colleges were granted good grades in the past by Naac," said Sanjiv Mishra, a teacher of Langat Singh College.

The team will also assess the university's status report about the administrative sections including the examination department, central library, hostels, health centres and postgraduate departments.

"The inspecting members would interact with the boarders of the hostels, teachers, guardians and the students," said a senior teacher of the department of English.

"Hostel superintendents have been asked to instruct the boarders to behave properly with the inspecting team," said a boarder from the postgraduate hostel, Anand Prakash.

The authorities are anxious about the teachers who have not compiled their academic records for the inspection.

"The Naac team will examine the research publications of teachers and their academic achievements. Teachers have been asked to submit the details of their published and research work time and again, but several of them have not paid attention so far," said an administrative officer.

"Majority of the teachers teaching in the postgraduate departments have failed to furnish their academic details despite repeated reminders," said a teacher on condition of anonymity.

Meanwhile, the university has put in almost Rs 2 crore from internal resources to spruce up the different departments.