The Bhim Rao Ambedkar Bihar University in Muzaffarpur. Telegraph picture

Muzaffarpur, March 3: Bhim Rao Ambedkar Bihar University plans to rationalise the strength of its faculty in all of its 33 constituent colleges.

The step is being taken at the insistence of the state government, which intends to rationalise the number of teachers to maintain uniformity in the academic circles. The move includes necessary transfer of teachers from overstaffed colleges to understaffed ones. The process is likely to be completed before the beginning of the ensuing academic session, said a source.

Several important departments in the postgraduate circle and many constituent colleges are functioning without teachers. The rationalisation would help the students who are missing classes because of lack of teachers. The university will also introduce the semester system in both undergraduate and postgraduate classes from the next academic session for which boards of studies of different subjects would be constituted soon, added the source.

Bhim Rao Ambedkar Bihar University vice-chancellor Rajendra Mishra said: “The university has decided to take stern action against the principals who violated the directives of the university despite repeated reminders. The university has asked the principals of the colleges to furnish details of the admissions taken by them to the university headquarters. The university has asked the examination controller for allowing registrations according to the sanctioned seats in the technical institutions and the colleges.”

He said: “The university has decided to lodge an FIR against the principals and officials of constituent and technical institutions apart from affiliated colleges in view of the blatant violation of admission norms. The university has detected anomalies in admissions. It has found that the colleges and technical institutions under the university indulge in enrolling students more than the sanctioned number of seats.”

The university has provided registrations for the sanctioned seats and the surplus admission posed a problem for the examination department. Recently, the university had lodged an FIR against the principal of Motihari Ayurvedic College with the university police station for taking excessive admission.

“The principal has been accused in the FIR for enrolling surplus students by violating the admission rules. Several employees of the examination department are under the scanner for registering surplus students being in collusion with the principals,” said Mishra.

The examination board has issued fresh directives to the principals for adhering to the admission guidelines strictly and to forward the examination forms of those students who fulfilled the criterion of 75 per cent attendance.