Patna University syndicate nod to Rs 231 crore deficit budget

PATNA: The

Patna University

(PU) syndicate on Monday approved a Rs 231-crore deficit budget for the next financial year (2018-19).

The budget estimates will now be placed before the senate on December 22 for its approval before being sent to the state government.

The syndicate meeting held under the chairmanship of VC Rash Bihari Prasad Singh also set up a three-member committee headed by senior syndicate member Sudhakar Prasad Singh to inquire into the alleged irregularities in promotion of education department teacher Ashutosh Kumar to the post of professor. Other members of the committee are PU history department head P K Poddar and PU students' welfare dean N K Jha.

The syndicate also approved all the decisions taken by the academic council, including introduction of entrance test for admission to PG courses, inclusion of new chapters on value education in the curricula of PG courses and implementation of the new guidelines for governing the award of PhD degrees, said PU registrar Rabindra Kumar.

IITP: The Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Indian Institute of Technology-Patna on Monday launched a new course, ‘Fuzzy Techniques for Intelligent Decision Making’, under the

Global Initiative of Academic Network

(

GIAN

) programme of the Union ministry of human resource development.

It was launched in the presence of Prof Sukhamay Kundu from Louisiana State University (USA) and college faculty members including Asif Ekbal, S K Parida, Jimson Mathew, Arijit Mondal and

Samrat Mondal

.

CIMP: Dr Rajagopal from

EGADE Business School

(Mexico) on Monday talked about the opportunities and challenges of emerging markets in a state like Bihar.

He was speaking at a daylong national conference on ‘Issues of emerging markets’ organised by Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna. Referring to the transformation of capitalist economies to captive economies, Dr Rajagopal underlined the need for investment in IT and skill development by the state.

Altogether 24 experts presented their research papers in three technical sessions during the day.

Jeevika CEO Balamurugan D, CIMP director V Mukunda Das and faculty members and students attended the conference.