patna magadh university mu has decided to introduce biometric attendance for its officers and staff from march 1announcing this decision mu vicechancellor shashi pratap shahi on thursday said that all the university staff would have to mark their biometric attendance at the time of their entry and departure on all working days he directed the staff to remain in office from 1030am to 5 pmthe vc made a surprise visit of the university office postgraduate departments mannu lal central library health centre university press guest house and hostels at bodh gaya he said disciplinary action would be taken against all such employees who were found abstaining from their duties he further directed the teachers of all the postgraduate departments and constituent colleges of the university to stay in their respective institutions at least for five hours on each work day and actively engage themselves in academic activitiesit may be mentioned here that the university has got a fulltime regular vc after a long time due to which the academic session of the university had derailed the students of the university were the greatest sufferers owing to the delay in the conduct of examinations and publication of results many a bright scholars lost job offers as they could not produce their examination results on time it is expected that the new vc will initiate some urgent measures to regularize the session and improve the academic atmosphere on the campus