Gaya: More than 250 of nearly 500 non-teaching employees will be relocated to the newly created Patliputra University.

Patliputra University vice-chancellor (VC) Gulab Chand Ram Jaiswal joined on March 20, 2018, and the new university is set to be functional in the next few days. On its part, MU officials are mum about the identity of employees allocated to the offshoot university.

Sources said some trouble-making union leaders may be shifted to the newly created university and that Patna-based principals are vying with each other to gain proximity to the new VC to the extent that one principal is learnt to have arranged a luxury vehicle for his new boss.

Patliputra University has been carved out of MU which has colleges located in seven districts of south Bihar, including, Patna, Gaya, Aurangabad and Nalanda. Besides, 44 constituent colleges, undivided MU had four government-funded minority colleges and 73 affiliated colleges. After the division, MU will retain control over 19 constituent, a government-funded minority college and 39 affiliated colleges.

Two dozen post-graduate departments and several self-finance courses, including BEd, hotel and hospitality management, academy of foreign languages, women's education department and physiotherapy will remain with the parent university. According to MU VC Qamar Ahsan, a committee has been constituted to work out the modalities of the university's bifurcation, including the distribution of assets and liabilities.

The distribution would be made in a 55:45 ratio with Patliputra University entitled to the bigger part of the slice.