Members of the senate at the meet at Magadh University in Bodhgaya on Sunday. Picture by Suman

Gaya, March 27: Good news for students passing out of Magadh University (MU). No longer will they have to get recommendation of the college principal on forms and go to the varsity headquarters to receive their degree certificates.

The university will hold a 10-day camp in the last week of April or in the first week of May where principals of all the colleges under MU would be invited to collect the degrees of successful students.

MU vice-chancellor (VC) Arvind Kumar announced this during the senate meeting at the Bodhgaya headquarters of the university today. “The step is being initiated for the convenience of successful students,” the VC said. The university would also start ring bus service between Gaya and Bodh Gaya for the students and the employees. The decision was taken following a demand by the Magadh University Non-teaching Employees’ Association general secretary Amarnath Pathak and the students’ representative Rupesh Kumar at the senate.

The senate passed a deficit budget worth around Rs 453.5 crore for 2011-12. Now, the budget would be sent to the state government for final approval of the cabinet.

The senate also discussed several other issues like filling up of vacant posts of teachers and non-teaching employees in the colleges, constitution and proper functioning of different committees and salary fixation of teachers in accordance with the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission.

The senate started on a noisy note after the presidential address of the vice-chancellor as senators raised issues like centralised admission in postgraduate course, fees collected from the students not sent to the colleges concerned so far, different committees of the university like finance committee, audit committee and others not functioning according to statutes of the university, lack of uniformity in promotion of teachers and others.

After the meeting, seniormost senator Vijay Kumar said the senate’s recommendation to grant affiliation to the BEd colleges without verifying their physical status like availability of infrastructure and faculty was wrong. Earlier, at the senate session he demanded that the senate be held at least twice a year.

The vice-chancellor, while replying to the issues raised by the senators, said the ministry of state human resource department was set to constitute a commission for appointment of teachers so that vacant posts could be filled up. He appealed to the members to co-operate in the interest of the university.