PATNA: The Bihar State University Service Commission (BSUSC) has extended the last date for online submission of applications for appointment of assistant professors in different universities of the state till December 10. Earlier, the last date was December 2.
BSUSC chairman Rajvardhan Azad said the decision was taken in view of the difficulties being faced by candidates in making their online submission of applications owing to some technical problems. The last date for receipt of downloaded hard copies of online applications along with photocopies of required documents has been extended to December 30 from December 24.
BSUSC has received as many as 53,235 applications till date. The maximum number of applications have been received from Bihar (25,718), followed by Uttar Pradesh (15,200), West Bengal (4,059), Rajasthan (1,130) and Madhya Pradesh (1027).
BSUSC had, on September 23, advertised altogether 4,638 posts of assistant professors in 52 subjects in all the 13 conventional universities of the state. The commission is likely to complete the subject-wise screening of applications by the end of this month and start interviewing candidates for recruitment next month, Azad said.
There has already been much delay in starting the process of appointment due to the Covid-19 pandemic and elections. Hence, the commission wants to expedite the process of appointment at the earliest. All necessary arrangements for holding interviews have already been made. To start with, interviews would be started in such subjects which have got lesser number of applications, Azad said.
When asked about the demand of the scholars of women’s studies course for inclusion of this subject in the process of appointment, the chairman said vacancies had been advertised only in the subjects approved by the state education department. The commission can’t take up any subject on its own, he clarified.
Interestingly enough, this course approved by the UGC is running on self-financing basis in Patna and Magadh universities for the last several years, but not a single post of teacher has yet been created by the government till date, added Azad.
The subject-wise vacancies as mentioned in the advertisement are sociology (424), English (253), Urdu (100), Persian (14), Maithili (43), Sanskrit (76), Hindi (292), History (316), ancient Indian history and archaeology (55), home science (83), personnel management and industrial relations (18), geography (142), political science (280), economics (268), philosophy (144), public administration (108), rural development (12), physics (300), chemistry (300), botany (332), mathematics (333), zoology (261), music (285), Bangla (23), Arabic (02), environmental science (26), commerce (104), literature (112), vyakaran (31), astrology (36), karmkand (17), dharmshashtra (05), Purana (09), darshan (03), Ambedkar thoughts (09), anthropology (04), geology (05), Gandhian thoughts (05), law (02), Angika (15), statistics (04), education (17), biochemistry (10), electronics (01), Pali (12), Prakrit (22), Nepali (10) and Russian (01).
University-wise, Maulana Mazharul Haq Arabic and Persian University has 2 vacancies, Veer Kunwar Singh University 428, Magadh University (381), Purnia University (213), B N Mandal University (377), Patna University (273), Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University (276), L N Mithila University (856), K S D Sanskrit University (192), Patliputra University (462), B R A Bihar University (603), Munger University (245) and Jai Prakash University (319).
According to BSUSC sources, interview would be conducted by six boards in two shifts each, with 15 candidates in each shift. The commission has six members at present. This will be the first appointment to be made by this new commission after its constitution.