PATNA: The postgraduate departments and colleges of
Patna University (PU) may have reopened after
Diwali and Chhath vacations, but regular academic activities are not likely to resume anytime soon. Classes have been suspended since March 16 due to the
Covid-19 pandemic.
In an advisory issued this month, the University Grants Commission had advised the universities to start regular academic activities with all precautions. However, no official communication regarding resumption of classes has yet been issued by the state government.
“Normal classes are unlikely to start in December. PU is busy finalizing the undergraduate (UG) admissions that began in the second week of October and will be completed in mid-December,”
PU students’ welfare dean N K Jha told this newspaper.
Besides, the postgraduate (PG) admissions will start in the first week of December as the last date for submission of applications is November 30. “Direct admission to the UG and PG courses at PU’s Directorate of Distance Education will also end on November 30,” Jha added.
Meanwhile, the counselling for admission to the BEd programme in different teachers’ training colleges of PU began on Monday.
“A counselling session for admission to
Patna Training College was held on Monday and that for admission to Patna Women’s College and Women’s Training College will be conducted on Tuesday,” Jha, who is the nodal officer for BEd admissions in PU, said and added that admissions to the BEd course were being made on the basis of the results of the state-level combined entrance test conducted by Lalit Narayan Mithila University.
Meanwhile, PU is gearing up to complete all its pending UG and PG examinations. While the Degree Part II exams will begin this week, the examinations of Degree Part I and PG (semesters II and IV) students will start in the first week of December.