patna universities in bihar are all set to introduce choicebased credit system cbcs at the undergraduatelevel from the new academic session commencing in july this year the raj bhavan is busy finalizing the uniform ordinance and regulations of cbcs and also getting the syllabi of ug courses revised as per the new systemthe universities had implemented cbcs at the postgraduate stage from the session 201819 itself but they could not implement the same at undergraduate level as most degree colleges were not prepared for it now the universities as well as the colleges under their jurisdiction have geared up to accept the challenge and to implement the new mode of curriculumpatna university pu happens to be the only university in the state to introduce cbcs in all its selffinancing vocational courses at the undergraduatelevel from the current academic session 201920 however in all the conventional courses at ug level the cbcs would be implemented from the next academic session 202021 pu vicechancellor rash bihari prasad singh saidthe vc pointed out that the raj bhavan had initiated necessary steps for revision of curriculum of all ug academic programmes in the light of cbcs it was decided that the syllabus of a particular subject would be revised by a particular university with the help of all other universities where this subject is taught the universities which were entrusted with the job of revision of syllabi of different subjects as per the ugc model syllabi included patna university physics mathematics geography personnel management and industrial relations statistics biochemistry english urdu arabic music and home science magadh university economics history ancient indian history magahi chemistry buddhist studies and social work bra bihar university botany hindi persian and electronics tilka manjhi bhagalpur university zoology anthropology computer science sociology bengla and political science veer kunwar singh university philosophy and bhojpuri ln mithila university psychology commerce maithili b n mandal university biotechnology and industrial microbiology and kameshwar singh darbhanga sanskrit university sanskritit is learnt that most universities have already revised the syllabi and sent the same to the chancellors secretariat now raj bhavan would constitute subjectwise committees of experts and get the new syllabi vetted and modified by respective committees once the revised syllabi based on cbcs are finalized and the uniform ordinance and regulations are assented to by the chancellor the same would be sent to all the universities for implementationthe new academic programmes under cbcs would provide some flexibility to the students in the choice of subjects these courses would be mainly of three types like core courses discipline electives from within the subject and generic electives said pu provc dolly sinha