This story is from April 23, 2019

Fate of 14 Magadh University employees hangs in balance

Fate of 14 Magadh University employees hangs in balance
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GAYA: Pataliputra University (PPU), Patna, an offshoot of Bodh Gaya-based Magadh University, is reluctant to accommodate 14 non-teaching employees of the parent university. The 14 non-teaching employees, who had earlier worked in MU’s Patna branch, were allotted PPU as part of the deal between the two universities to accommodate such employees.
The PPU, it may be recalled was established on March 18 last year and as per the arrangement, 55% of the nearly 450 non-teaching employees of the MU headquarters were to be shifted to the Patna-based PPU.

Of the 44 constituent and 4 government-funded minority colleges under undivided MU, 25 constituent and three government-funded minority colleges located in Patna and Nalanda districts were tagged with PPU. Altogether 19 constituent and one government-funded minority colleges in Gaya, Nawada, Aurangabad Jehanabad and Arwal districts remained with the parent university.
While the PPU teachers deputed in MU headquarters in different capacities, including the then registrar Shailesh Kumar, controller of examinations Bimal Singh and Anjum Ashrafi and inspector of colleges were repatriated in June last year, the apportionment of non-teaching employees could not be done due to differences between the authorities of the two universities on the modalities.
Initially, PPU authorities wanted to pick employees from the MU’s gradation list. But the MU officials insisted on some structured formula for the apportionment of non-teaching employees. Functioning of the PPU has been badly affected on account of employee crunch. Earlier, MU registrar Col Pranav Kumar said the university favoured the same formula that was adopted during the MU’s first bifurcation in 1992 when Veer Kunwar Singh University was carved out of it.

Asked about the progress made in the apportionment exercise between the two universities, Magadh University PRO S N P Deen said in the first phase, option was given to the employees for relocation to the new university. Altogether 33 employees exercised their options in favour of PPU. They included 14 employees who were earlier working at the Patna branch of the undivided MU.
But PPU officials have declined to accept the services of the 14 employees on the ground that these employees were working on non-sanctioned posts. About the remaining 19 employees who opted for PPU, the MU PRO said these employees would be relieved after the elections as the model code of conduct was in force.
According to PPU pro-VC Girish Kumar Chaudhary, the apportionment done by MU was not in accordance with the MoU reached between the two universities. Even of the 19 other employees, two were already in PPU service and as such the effective number was 17 and not 19, he said.
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