Patna, Sept. 21: Central University of Bihar (CUB), which is yet to have a permanent address, could soon lose its temporary home. Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Patna, has asked the varsity to vacate the premises from which it operates at present.

On September 19, BIT, Mesra administration served a notice on CUB to vacate the premises by the end of the month. The agreement between the two institutes would expire on September 30.

In response, the CUB administration requested BIT to reconsider its decision. Mohammed Nihal, registrar, CUB, said: “After we got the notice from BIT, Mesra, we wrote a letter to them requesting them to reconsider our case.”

The CUB letter also mentions that the space was allotted to the varsity on the campus of the tech hub at the behest of the state government. Also, the land was provided to BIT by the government, and the building of the tech hub was constructed in a public-private-partnership mode.

The letter also claimed that shifting the university campus in the middle of the session would pose innumerable problems for the administration and the students. Scholars, who are pursuing various courses at CUB, would be the biggest sufferers.

Students, too, corroborated the claim of the administration.

A student of development studies, on condition of anonymity, said: “We came to know that our university has been asked to shift from the BIT campus. If this happens, it will cause major problems for us.”

No official from the science and technology department, under whose jurisdiction the tech hub functions, was available for comment.

The university was set up in 2009 by an act of Parliament but it is yet to get a permanent address because of the dispute between the state and the central governments. While the state government wants the varsity to set up home at Motihari, the Centre is of the opinion that it should function from a venue nearer to Patna.

The university started with 25 students in a postgraduate course in development studies in 2009. Eighteen of the students of the first batch were placed this year.

At present, the university has nine courses and 160 students.

It recently selected 11 regular faculty members in development studies, computer science, environmental science, mathematics and statistics.