patna renowned academics drawn from different parts of the country have pleaded for phasewise expansion commensurate with infrastructure of the newlyset up central university of bihar cubafter a twoday brainstorming session here they envisaged several undergraduate and postgraduate programmes to be launched shortly under the schools of social sciences and policy technology physical and chemical sciences languages and literature and educationcub has already launched six masters programmes in computer science development studies environmental sciences mathematics statistics and biotechnology it is now planning an expansion by adding departments centres and institutes under the umbrella of 14 schools as provided by its statuteit was decided by the experts that courses like 5year integrated master programme in social work and law with the possibility of exit after 3year graduation 4year dual degree programme in bed undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in core basic subjects and technology would be started within the next two years these programmes will not only fulfill the universitys goal of competence and societal relevance but will also prepare marketready quality graduates felt the expertsthe meet coordinated by papia raj pradhan parth sarthi and ranjan srivastava was greatly benefited by the presence of eminent scholars like s c lakhotia g k panda a b prasad s c bhattacharya arun kamal apoorvanand manas mukul das alok rai m b verma a laxminath v mukunda das and d m diwakar cub vicechancellor janak pandey presided