Calcutta, March 29 :     Calcutta University is being flooded with proposals from non-resident Indians who either want to set up chairs in their names or provide funds for higher studies. However, legal complications have come in the way of the university utilising the money. Paritosh Mohan Chakraborty, an NRI, and his wife had offered the university Rs 30 lakh for a chair in their name at the chemistry department, but on a condition. The couple want to be invited for the recruitment of the teacher for the chair. University rules, however, do not allow both to be made invitees during recruitment. Vice-chancellor R.N. Bose today said Chakraborty had been made the chancellor?s nominee for recruiting the teacher. ?But we are yet to include his wife. We hope to sort this out and the teacher will be appointed soon.? According to sources, the vice-chancellor has taken special initiative to rake in foreign funds for the development of the university. Even though the university is yet to recruit a teacher for the chair, it has managed to open the Centre for Neuroscience at the Basic Medicine department at SSKM Hospital with Rs 85 lakh offered by another NRI S.N. Pradhan. Ashis Kumar Mandal, also an NRI, has offered the university Rs 30 lakh for a chair in his and his wife?s name. The university is still mulling over the proposal. But it is learnt that the authorities will take up the issue soon. Finance pro-vice-chancellor Hiron Kumar Banerjee said although NRI funds will not directly help the university cope with its financial crunch, the money will come in handy for higher studies and research work in medical science, which will indirectly help the people. The pro-vice-chancellor said that the university had drawn up the Calcutta University Industry Institute Partnership Programme to generate resources to beat the funds crunch. He said the university?s dependence on the state government had increased, with the University Grants Commission not keeping its word on the non-plan grant during the Ninth Plan period. Banerjee also pointed out that not just the NRIs, at least seven Indians had offered Rs 16,04,500 to the university in the past year: a donation that is expected to help the century-old institution.