GAYA: The proposed shifting of the Central University of South Bihar (CUSB) to its permanent campus in Panchanpur village, 12km to the north-west of Gaya town, has been deferred by ten days.Sources said classes of the session 2018, earlier scheduled to begin on July 20, would now begin on August 1. University PRO Mudassir Alam attributed the delay to the logistical requirements of campus relocation.Till now, the nine-year-old university has been functioning from rented buildings located in Patna and Gaya towns.The new campus is spread over 300 acres of what used to be a military airfield during World War II. The first phase of building construction involving administrative building, state-of-the-art lecture theatres and a separate hostel each for boys and girls is ready.Asked about staff quarters, VC Prof Harish Chandra Singh Rathore said the quarters construction work might get delayed. The staff members are given conveyance allowance and, as such, they will have to make their own arrangements to commute to and from their workplace, said the VC.According to the sources, about 1,200 students are enrolled in different courses offered by the university, including five-year integrated course in education and law. But the two hostels located on the new campus can accommodate only 700 students. The remaining students will have to make their own arrangements.The VC made it clear that the CUSB was not a residential university and, as such, the university authorities were under no obligation to provide hostel accommodation to each and every student. Seats available in the two hostels will be allotted strictly on the basis of merit, said Rathore.As for the menu at the hostel mess, Rathore said both vegetarian and non-vegetarian food options would be available to the boarders.

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