Prayagraj: In the backdrop of the guidelines issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC) regarding re-opening of the university campus and teaching in post lockdown period, authorities of the Allahabad University (AU) have decided that the teaching faculty would now have to visit the campus to conduct online classes from Monday to Friday.
However, on Saturdays, heads of respective departments and centres would ensure that the entire department is sanitised to start functioning from Monday onwards.
The present academic session on the campus has commenced from November 2 while adopting online mode of teaching and also extending online classes on Saturdays. Till now, most of the teaching faculty members were taking classes from home but the new vice-chancellor, Prof Sangita Srivastava, soon after taking over the charge, had made it clear that now the teachers would have to come to the university and take online classes from the campus itself.
Postgraduate students and research scholars in the science and technology stream may continue to do experiments in the laboratory as earlier.
However, keeping in mind the urgency and requirements of the teaching, all faculty members would continue taking their classes on Saturdays from home so that there is no loss of teaching hours and work. All the departments and centres have been asked to display their modified time-table accordingly.
Moreover, on the approval of the VC, AU registrar Prof N K Shukla has notified some changes that have been made in the administrative posts on the campus.
Among these changes, Prof Syed Ibrahim Rizvi of the department of Biochemistry has been appointed as chairman of the Institute of Professional Studies (IPS).