bhubaneswar a latest cag report tabled in the assembly on thursday as well as the nirf ranking of universities released the same day pointed out utkal universitys poor research output the states premier university got only 1378 out of 100 marks in research and professional practice rp which is the main reason behind it not making it to the top 100 institutions in the country in nirfs overall categoryfour other institutions of the state including two private ones have found a place in the top 100 the cag pointed out the poor research output of this institution saying only one patent was published by the university between 20142019 only one patent was published in the year 201718 but not granted till the date of audit as regards consultancies utkal university had received rs 7174 lakh as receipts for four consultancy projects between 201419 read the cag reportthe cag report further stated that the percentage of research works that were completed in utkal university remained low 16 per cent and unencouraging publication of research papers by teachers needs an impetus in the right direction especially in the case of colleges development of patents and consultancies and industryacademia connect needs to be motivated in universities and initiated in colleges said cag in its recommendationthough utkal university has managed to get 87th rank in the nirfs university category it has obtained poor marks in research parametersthere are five parameters in nirf to give a rating to an institution these are teaching learning and resources tlr research and professional practice rp graduation outcomes go outreach and inclusivity oi and perception all these parameters have 100 marks eachutkal university got 4199 out of 100 in tlr 1378 in rp 7266 in go 5052 in oi and 3480 in peer perception it secured only 1378 out of 100 in rp because of poor research outputeducationists said the university seriously needs the motivation to strengthen its research ecosystemasoka kumar das vice chairman of odisha state higher education council and former vicechancellor of the university said there is no difference between schoolcollege and university if the latter does not put emphasis on research all stakeholders should work together to strengthen the research ecosystem we have started this work in this direction hopefully the state goal will be achieved he addedsiba prasad adhikary former vc of fm university and former professor of utkal university said the huge vacancy of teaching posts is the major reason behind the poor research output out of 257 sanctioned posts 126 teaching posts are lying vacant in utkal university if you do not have half of your faculty posts how can you think about research outputs even candidates enrolled for phd course works may not get guides to start their research works due to teacher shortage he addeda professor of the university said his institution should improve the quantity and quality of publications it should file more patents and work consistently on intellectual property rights ipr he added to get good perception and ranks