Patna, Jan. 12: Unhappy over the inordinate delay in the site selection of Central University of Bihar, BJP MLA from Motihari Pramod Kumar has written a letter to the President of India requesting her to direct the Centre for setting up the varsity in Motihari.

Kumar, in his letter, has expressed surprise over the failure of the central government to take a final decision on the varsity site after a central team inspected three places in Motihari in December 2009.

The BJP MLA has also mentioned about the wish of the state government to set up the university at Motihari.

“The UPA-II government at the Centre appears to be hell-bent in denying the students of Bihar to study in a central university. Else, it would not have kept mum on such an important issue,” Kumar told The Telegraph.

He said: “The same government showed urgency in finalising the sites for 14 other central universities coming up in other states, but it developed a cold feet when the turn of Bihar came.”

He claimed that unlike other projects, where land acquisition was a problem, people of Motihari were more than willing to give their land for the varsity.

A central university after the name of Mahatma Gandhi in Motihari has been a long-pending demand of the people of the region.

Having floated “Kendriya Vidyalaya Nirman Sahyog Samiti”, a common platform to support the demand for setting up the central university in Motihari, Kumar said: “Our wait will not be endless. If the Centre does not take a decision on the issue soon, the Samiti would move court.”

The central university is at present functioning from a camp office located in the building housing the Patna centre of Birla Institute of Technology.

The vice-chancellor of Central University of Bihar, Janak Pandey, said: “I appeal to all the authorities concerned to finalise the site of the varsity so that it can have a permanent structure and serve the purpose for which it has been set up.”