Gaya: Magadh University appoints new assistant professors

GAYA: Magadh University on Thurday appointed 21 assistant professors. All the appointees will be teaching history in the university’s postgraduate department and several constituent colleges.
The appointments have been made on the recommendation of the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) and the appointees will be on probation for a period of two years from the date of joining.The posts were advertised in 2014. The appointment notification has been issued by the officiating registrar, Sidnath Prasad Deen.
As per the contents of the university notification, six appointments have been made in the postgraduate department of history. GBM College, Gaya, Gaya College, Gaya and Daudnagar College have got two teachers each. The other colleges where the appointed teachers have been deputed are S Sinha College, Aurangabad, SN Sinha College, Warisaliganj, SN Sinha College, Jehanabad, SD College, Kaler, ANS College Nabinagar, SN Sinha College, Tekari, RMW College, Nawada, TS College, Hisua and KLS College, Nawada.
The appointees have been given one month to join their respective positions failing which the job offer would be presumed to have been rejected by the appointees. According to BPSC sources, the recommendations for appointment were made after a thorough filtering process in which only those who qualified the national or state eligibility test or obtained their PhD degree as per the UGC guidelines 2009 were considered for appointment.
The UGC guidelines 2009 mandate selection of PhD candidates through a test, six months long course in research methodology, publication of at least one paper in a peer reviewed journal from the PhD dissertation, presentation of at least one paper from the dissertation content at a national or international seminar and submission of soft copy of the PhD dissertation for an online plagiarism test among others.
The BPSC, according to sources, recommended altogether 33 names for appointment as history teachers in the undivided MU as the posts were advertised before the establishment of Pataliputra University. Pataliputra University, it may be recalled, was carved out of MU in March 2018. Later, one candidate did not turn up for counselling. Thus, total 32 candidates appeared for counselling, out of which 21 were appointed in MU and 11 were allotted Pataliputra University (PPU).