Patna univ UG classes to begin from July 7

Patna: Admission of students to the four-year bachelor honours courses in regular mode in arts, science and commerce from the second merit list concluded on Friday. As many as 361 candidates were admitted in different colleges, namely, Patna Science College, Patna College, Vanijya Mahavidyalaya, B N College and Magadh Mahila College till Friday evening.Admission of students who have passed the entrance tests for admission to all the six self-financed courses running in different colleges will begin on July 6.PU students’ welfare dean Kameshwar Pandit said that the counseling and admission of students to the four-year apprenticeship-embedded degree programme will be held at B N College and Magadh Mahila College from July 6 to 10.“Induction meet for the newly admitted undergraduate students in all the colleges will be held on July 6.

Their regular classes in the new academic session (2026-27) will commence from July 7,” the dean said.Meanwhile, PU vice-chancellor Ajay Kumar Singh has constituted an 11-member committee with PU students’ welfare dean as its chairperson and proctor as member secretary to supervise and monitor the measures against the menace of ragging after the commencement of classes.Principals of all the colleges have already been instructed to make necessary preparations for checking the problem of ragging completely before the commencement of classes.

They were also directed to take an affidavit from the students at the time of their admission, as per the rules of the UGC, declaring that they would not involve themselves in any sort of ragging inside or outside the campus. The institutions have also been directed to exhibit slogans like 'Ragging is an offence and that students involved in it may be expelled from the university'.“There were anti-ragging squads consisting of senior teachers in all colleges, apart from a central committee at the university level. These groups will remain vigilant on the campus after the commencement of classes of new batches,” Pandit said.