THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Daltonganj, November 22: Nilamber Pitamber University (NPU) is mooting a plan to popularise the self-financed professional courses by way of distributing pamphlets containing relevant details for admission etc, among the “feeder colleges” imparting class 12 studies.
Vice Chancellor of the university Dr Prof Dinesh Kumar Singh said, “We wanted to open three such self-financed courses like Mass Communication, Theatre Art and Library Science from the session 2025-26.”
Courses Deferred After Low Applications
Necessary information and details about these courses were duly publicised, but the response to admission in each of these courses was very poor, said the VC.
None of these three courses could get even 20 applications each. All applications are not necessarily a guarantee of admission, reminded the VC.
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“And so when these three courses could not get even 20 applications for admission, the idea of running these three courses was dropped for this session 2025-26”, said the VC.
The Academic Council has resolved to run such courses only when there are at least 20 admissions, be it for diploma or certificate courses, and where this baseline is not met, the course or courses are temporarily shelved, added the VC.
Pamphlet Campaign to Boost Awareness
He said, “We have decided to popularise these courses. We will be distributing pamphlets in this regard in the feeder colleges located in and around the university, or even in different sites of such feeder colleges, to make these students aware of the feeder colleges that there is a career or career opportunity for Mass Communication, Theatre Art and Library Science.”
Concerns Over Misuse of Admission
Sources said there were a couple of non-students of this university who were too inclined to take admission in any of these three courses, not for any career enhancement but to shed off their non-student status to become bona fide students of the university, which could have paved the way for them to launch a stir or agitation on any ground in the university.
VC first refused to comment on this, but when pestered, said, “These courses are job-oriented. We had a very honest intention of launching it for the benefit of the students, but if someone has this intention of gaining entry into the university through admission in professional courses to raise noise and become voices of disagreement or fake or biased criticisms, then our entire outreach to benefit students gets eclipsed.”
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Such courses are open to government personnel if they obtain NoC from their higher ups since such courses are of three to four hours only on any working day.
State Finance Minister Radha Krishna Kishore too had asked the university to start courses in Journalism, and the university in very right earnest readied itself to launch it but for poor number of applications for admission, this Journalism course and two other courses were grounded before any take off.
