Patna University (PU) plans to welcome new students. All postgraduate (PG) departments of the university are gearing up to conduct an induction meeting of the newly admitted students before starting their classes in the first week of March.

All COVID safety protocols will be followed in classrooms and 50% attendance of students allowed.

PU students’ welfare dean N K Jha told this newspaper that the process of admission to different PG courses was nearing completion and likely to be finalized by the end of February.

He also pointed out that the attendance of students in undergraduate programmes of different colleges had improved considerably in the last six days. “When offline classes began on February 18, many of them were reluctant to go to college amid the pandemic. Now, however, more than 60% of the students are attending classes,” Jha added.

PU has started an exercise to revise the honorarium and remuneration of teachers for different duties performed by them. A meeting of the committee constituted by the vice-chancellor for the purpose was held on Tuesday where ways to revise the old rates were discussed.

“A final decision regarding revision of rates will be taken soon,” said the dean.

The guest faculty members of PU welcomed the announcement of education minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary regarding revision of their honorarium as per the UGC guidelines. At present, they are being paid Rs 1,000 per class, which will be increased to Rs 1,500. They will be able to earn a maximum of Rs 50,000 a month. The UGC rates had been implemented in other states long back, but not in Bihar.

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