It's official now. A team from the UGC's National Accreditation and Assessment Council will evaluate all postgraduate departments and administrative sections of the Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University in July.

The team will arrive by July 15 and complete inspection of all 22 post-graduate departments and several wings of the administrative sections, including examination department, central library and printing press among others, by July 31.

The university had already sent the National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC) a letter of intent for the inspection in November. The inspection was due in April. But, citing "unavoidable reasons", the varsity sought some more time to tone up infrastructure, apparently to attract good grades, said a university officer. The university proctor-cum-spokesperson, Ajay Kumar Srivastava, said the university approached NAAC in April and urged it to come for inspection in July instead of April.

The NAAC readily agreed , said the proctor. Vice-chancellor (VC) Pandit Phalende has urged principals of constituent colleges to warm up for NAAC's evaluation by year-end.

The university is in a fix, as UGC has refused to provide it Rs 20 crore, under the Centre's ambitious National Higher Education Campaign, for 2014-2015, for failing to complete NAAC evaluation, said registrar Vivekanand Shukla. The VC has now constituted a team, led by Langat Singh College principal Amrendra Narayan Yadav, to coordinate preparedness at 33 constituent colleges. There were 39 constituent colleges under the university concerned and so far six colleges - namely Langat Singh College, Muzaffarpur, Mahant Darshan Das Mahila College, Muzaffarpur, Ramdayalu Singh College Muzaffarpur, Munshi Singh College, Motihari, Raj Narayan College, Hajipur and BND College, Dayalpur, Vaishali - have been evaluated by NAAC. The team gave Langat Singh College grade A and the five other colleges grade B each.

On the other hand, NAAC turned down a letter of intent furnished by 10 constituent colleges in rural areas for complete lack of infrastructure and acute staff shortage. Nalin Vilochan, principal of R. C. College, Sakra, said NAAC thrice turned down his plea for evaluation .

Colleges in the countryside are already in bad shape over shortage of staff and students .

Ram Pratap Neeraj, principal of KCTC College, Raxaul, said it was high time the state government intervened and filled up vacant posts of teachers and provided funds for infrastructure development before the NAAC evaluation. The university recently doled out Rs 5 lakh from its internal resources to all PG departments and the university sections to spruce up crumbling edifices and tone up infrastructure ahead of the evaluation.