Bihar: Attempt to grab Magadh University land foiled

GAYA: Attempt to grab nearly three acres of land belonging to the Magadh University was foiled on Wednesday as VC Prof Rajendra Prasad, registrar Sidnath Prasad Deen along with other university officials and local police reached the site where land grabbers were engaged in the construction of a boundary wall.
Confirming the incident, the registrar said that it was a serious matter and the state government as well the Chancellor’s office is being informed about the incident.“An FIR has also been lodged against the land grabber,” said the registrar. The land is located at Sripur Tand village of Mocharim panchayat to the south of MU campus.
As per available information about 100 acres off campus land donated to the university by philanthropists is currently under adverse possession. The university pays land rent to the government and the land produce including fruit and grains are usurped by land-grabbers. Successive VCs have requested the state government to evict the land usurpers but the complaints have largely gone unheeded. About 71 acres of the land is located at Zindapur village.
According to university insiders, the estate department staff of the university entrusted with the upkeep of the varsity assets has been hand in glove with the land-grabbers for obvious reasons.
Meanwhile, the university syndicate on Tuesday decided to convene the annual meeting of the senate. Senate is the apex body of the university and it functions through the syndicate. The senate meet has been scheduled for 16 February. The annual budget of the university for the financial year 2020-21 will be presented for approval. Once approved by the senate, the budget proposals will be forwarded to the state government.
The most important budgetary provision pertains to the salary of nearly 1700 teaching and non-teaching staff working in the university headquarters, 19 constituent and one government-funded minority college. Besides the emoluments of teaching and non-teaching staff, provision is also made for nearly 4500 pensioners including family pensioners.
The pension liabilities of the staff of 17 constituent colleges of Veer Kuer Singh University (VKSU), Ara, who retired before October 1992 and 25 constituent and three government-funded minority colleges of Pataliputra University reaching the superannuation age before March’2018 rests with the MU.
Both Veer Kunwar Singh University and Pataliputra University have been carved out of undivided MU. VKS University was established in October 1992 and Pataliputra University was established in March 2018.
The MU headquarters, as of now is over staffed as division of non-teaching employees between the parent MU and its off shoot, the PPU has yet not been finalised on account of differences between the senior functionaries of the two universities.
Earlier, the then MU VC Prof Qamar Hasan complained that the Pataliputra University wants to cherry pick from the list of MU employees, while he favoured staff division under some structured formula as was done in the case of VKS University.