Ranchi University (RU) will not initiate the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) scheme in Undergraduate (UG) courses from 2016 academic session. However, all Masters Degree programmes will come under the CBCS pattern, which will be applicable from the current academic session. The decision has been taken after studying various facets of the CBCS and after the instruction issued by Higher and Technical Education Minister, Neera Yadav recently on CBCS scheme.
The decision was approved in the Academic Council meeting of RU conducted with the members on Saturday. The Minister has already instructed all the five varsities Vice-Chancellors to study feasible facets of CBCS scheme and to disseminate all mandatory information about the scheme among students and faculty members before implementing it in their respective universities.
“At present, we do not have adequate teaching staffs to meet the demand of various subjects. Moreover, we also need to assure the basic infrastructural facilities before implementing CBCS at UG level. The university is chalking out proposal to fulfill the basic requirement of CBCS which include trained and qualified teaching staffs, boosting the existing infrastructure or creating new infrastructure. The university will start CBCS from next academic year for UG programmes. However, the scheme will be implemented for PG courses from this year,” RU VC, RK Pandey, said.
The other major decision of the academic council meet includes initiating Bachelor degree programme in Community Health. Soon intermediate science students can complete graduation in community health course from RU. The course is likely to start from the current academic session at Public Health Centre, Namkom. The course outline has been designed as per the guideline issued from the Director, IPH.
The university is planning to initiate the B.Sc. community health course at earliest at Ranchi and Hazaribagh. The course will be scheduled for three and half years. At present, 60 seats will be there at University. Director, Health services, Dr. Sumant Mishra and RU VC, Ramesh Kumar Pandey has already discussed on various features of the course in the meeting conducted on June 8 at RU administrative block.
Courses like M.Sc. Nursing and Physiotherapy also got the approval from academic board members and will be soon initiated at RU and later on to its constituent colleges.