Patna: Patna University (PU) is set to introduce a choice-based semester system (CBC) in all three-year regular courses from 2022-23 academic sessions.
PK Development Officer PK Khan told this newspaper here on Sunday that the revenue regulations and regulations examination all these courses will be placed at the next meeting the University Senate scheduled to be held on January 18.
After the approval of the Senate, the same thing will be sent to Raj Bhavan to get Chancellor’s approval.
“Ordonance and regulations of 16 subjects at the undergraduate level have been compiled and the remaining 16 subjects tend to be designed by the subject expert committee soon,” Khan said.
PU Vice-Chancellor (VC) G K Chaudhary has held a related department head meeting on January 3 to review the situation and take the necessary actions.
Previously, VC had formed a six-member committee led by Vanijya Mahavidyalaya Principal N JHA to formulate revenue regulations and examination regulations for UG courses under the CBCS pattern in the light of the UGC guidelines.
Other members of the committee are Shankar Kumar (Physics), Rakesh Ranjan (Politics), Siddharth Bhardwaj (Economics), Shekhar (Geology), and Shobhan Chakraborty (English).
In early 2019, the Chancelloriatial Secretariat had announced that CBC would be introduced at the undergraduate stage in all universities from the next session (2020-21) and even began to frame the uniform CBC regulations and regulations.
It has also initiated steps to get a revised UG Syllabus in the new CBCS system.
However, the same thing does not come true because of a pandemic.
“PU has implemented CBC on the postgraduate stage from the 2018-19 session itself, but cannot apply the same at the undergraduate level because most universities are not ready for it,” said Khan, added, some PU self-financing courses ran in college different has introduced CBCs from the 2019-20 session.
“If regulations are approved by Chancellor, PU will be the first university in the state to introduce CBC and semester systems at the undergraduate level,” he said.