patna the chancellors secretariat has directed the universities to organize as many as 16 cocurricular and extracurricular programmes during the next six months with a view to improving the academic atmosphere in colleges and university department and encouraging the students to take part in sports and cultural activitiestilka manjhi bhagalpur university tmbu has been asked to organize a threeday interuniversity sports meet eklavya from february 6 to 8 all the universities in the state would send their athletics teams in this competition and the winners would be awarded prizes an interuniversity cultural festival was organized by patliputra university in the first week of decemberl n mithila university lnmu will organize a workshop on naac accreditation at darbhanga in january itself this workshop holds great significance as a large number of educational institutions are yet to be accreditated by the national assessment and accreditation council naac and hence they are being deprived of financial grants from the ugc and other funding agencies besides the workshop would also train the institutions in making necessary preparations for assessment and scoring better grades following their accreditation recently the selfstudy reports submitted by more than a dozen colleges of different universities including patna and patliputra universities were not accepted by naac as they were not properly filled in naac accreditation has now become mandatory for all the institutions of higher education in the country and no institution would get any financial aid from any agencies unless it is accreditated said sourcesjayaprakash university chhapra has been asked to organize a quiz competition for students on role of mahatma gandhi in indias freedom movement during the current month itself bihar agricultural university sabour will organize an agricultural exhibition in february and munger university will organize an exhibition on the latest scientific techniques and equipmentpatna university will organize a workshop on revision of threeyear degree courses as per the ugcnet syllabi universities in bihar are also preparing for introducing semester system and choice based credit system cbcs at the undergraduate level from the next academic session the universities have already adopted cbcs at the postgraduate level following a uniform ordinance assented to by the chancellor sources addedbesides raj bhavan has directed all the universities to organize workshops seminars and conferences at regular intervals