gaya the state governments decision to abolish nearly 1700 existing posts of college and university teachers has hit the magadh university the hardest as nearly 900 of these posts are from the mu alone according to an education department notification dated june 14 2012 the number of sanctioned posts in the post graduate pg departments and the colleges under mu was 3080 as per mondays cabinet decision the number of sanctioned posts in mu has now come down to 2187 however the collegewise break up of sanctioned posts after the ratification of the rationalization process has not yet been communicated to the university the rationalization process it may be recalled was initiated about five years back by the then osd to the chancellor krishna kumar to correct the apparent imbalance in the teachertaught ratio following changes in the preferences of students and such changes made several subjects particularly classical languages like pali sanskrit and persian lose popularity among the students the total number of pali teachers as per krishna kumars finding in mu was 40 and only 17 students were enrolled with the teacher student ration being 235 1 in favour of students not only that six teachers were found working in bangla language and literature and not a single student was there to study bangla the 40 pali teachers were spread over nearly oneandhalfadozen constituent colleges and the mu pg department mu officiating vc arun kumar was not available for his reaction on the rationalization decision as he was reportedly busy with a prescheduled meeting of the university syndicate cp singh former president of the mu teachers association said that he was not aware of the formula on which the rationalisation decision has been taken and as such he was not in a position to say anything in the matter fustab president kanhaiya bahadur sinha said the federation had some reservations about the rationalization process as the number of students in a particular subject can not be the sole determinant of the requirement of teachers profit loss approach does not suit educational institutions there may be subjects in which the number of students was not very high nevertheless these subjects were necessary to keep alive scholastic ideas and such subjects indirect contribution to society and its thought process was immense moreover the number of students in a particular subject in a particular institution keeps on changing and it would be wrong to assess the requirement on the basis of number of students during a given period of time said sinha