The State Cabinet on Tuesday approved amendments to certain provisions of the BPUT Act, 2002. To bring uniformity with other State universities, the Cabinet proposed to fix the term of office of the Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) Vice-Chancellor at four years instead of the current term of five years. IT is proposed to re-designate the conventional designation of Professor, Reader and Lecturer as Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor in line with the all-India pattern and as per the AICTE norms.
It was decided to appoint an OAS officer of Joint Secretary rank as the Registrar of BPUT to ensure better and efficient management of the work of the university. Besides, to redefine ‘Constituent College’ in the BPUT Act as a college established and controlled by the university so as to convert the status of Government engineering colleges from constituent colleges of the BPUT and bring them under their respective autonomous Board of Governors for proper administration.
From the date of commencement of this Amendment Act, the CET Bhubaneswar would cease to be a constituent college of BPUT and shall be an affiliated college with its Board of Governors functioning as its apex body.