This story is from September 11, 2021

Patna University to introduce CBCS at UG level from next session

Patna University (PU) will introduce choice based credit system (CBCS) in all its regular courses at the undergraduate level from the next academic session (2022-2023).
Patna University to introduce CBCS at UG level from next session
Patna University
PATNA: Patna University (PU) will introduce choice based credit system (CBCS) in all its regular courses at the undergraduate level from the next academic session (2022-2023).
A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of academics and PU officials held on Friday under the chairmanship of vice-chancellor (VC), Girish Kumar Chaudhary. It was decided to start necessary preparations for the implementation of CBCS without any further delay.
The VC constituted a six-member committee headed by applied economics and commerce department senior faculty member, N K Jha, to formulate admission ordinance and examination regulations for the UG courses under CBCS pattern in the light of UGC guidelines.
Other members of the committee are Shankar Kumar (physics), Rakesh Ranjan (political science), Siddharth Bhardwaj (economics), Shekhar (geology), and Shobhan Chakraborty (English). The professor-in-charge of PU information technology cell will provide all technical assistance to this committee.
PU students’ welfare dean, Anil Kumar, said the ordinance and regulations drafted by this committee would be placed before the academic council and syndicate of the university for their approval. “They will then be sent to the Raj Bhavan for the governor’s approval. If the regulations are okayed by him, PU will become the first university in the state to introduce CBCS and semester system at the UG level,” he added.
A detailed discussion on revising the syllabi of UG and PG courses under CBCS was held at a high-level meeting at the Raj Bhavan on Thursday and the VCs of all the universities decided to get their syllabi revised with a view to making them socially relevant.
In 2019, the chancellor’s secretariat had announced that the CBCS would be introduced at the UG stage in all the colleges from the next session (2020-2021) and even started framing uniform ordinance and regulations. It had also initiated steps for getting the syllabi of UG courses revised as per the CBCS. But the same did not materialize due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
PU had implemented CBCS at the PG stage from the session 2018-2019, but it could not implement the same at the UG level as most colleges were not prepared for it. However, some self-financing (vocational) courses of PU running in different colleges have already introduced CBCS from 2019-2020 session.
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