Patna University is going to develop the Saidpur campus as its southern block.

Based on Patna High Court orders, a contingent of policemen on Saturday evicted illegal occupants from the Saidpur campus of Patna University.

A boundary wall would be erected around the campus so that squatters don't enter the premises again. The Patna University administration has already written a letter to the state education department for erecting a boundary wall across the 60-acre campus.

University registrar Sanjay Sinha said: "Around two months back, the university had written a letter to the state education department about erecting a boundary wall. Now that the campus is free from encroachments, the university will approach the education department again for permission to build the wall."

Once this work is done, the university will take the next step and demolish the dilapidated hostels. The university administration has plans to shift Vanijya Mahavidyalaya (the directorate of distance education), the teaching training college and the postgraduate department of commerce and economics to the new campus.

It took more than eight years for the district and university administration to evict squatters from the Saidpur campus, which is known for all the wrong reasons. The last time illegal occupants were removed from the campus was in 2007. Squatters entered the campus again, gradually, despite their removal.

Patna University teachers and students fear that delay in construction of a boundary wall would lead to squatters entering the campus again. A senior teacher at Patna University, on condition of anonymity, said: "Unless the university and district administration takes steps against these squatters, the dream of developing the Saidpur campus will not be fulfilled." The teacher also gave the example of Golakpur area, near Patna Law College, which is still occupied by illegal occupants.

The Saidpur hostel was built in the early seventies and there have been several occasions when the boarders have clashed with locals. The hostel has gained notoriety over the years for nurturing hooligans and becoming a virtual den of anti-socials. Guddu Sharma, a gangster who was shot dead in Delhi in 2005, was a boarder of the hostel.

This hostel is also one of the reasons why a police check post in the area was converted into a full-fledged police station in 2007.

Saidpur hostel was in the news in December 2011 when the police recovered the body of one Dilip Kumar, a postgraduate student, from an abandoned cafeteria at the hostel. A 24-year-old was shot at and critically injured at the hostel, earlier this year.