patna more than 300 teachers of different colleges and universities in the state observed a daylong fast at rblock railway crossing here on saturday to lodge their protest against rampant corruption and favouritism prevailing in the portals of higher education and also to press their longpending demands the call for fast was given by the joint action committee of the federation of university teachers associations of bihar futab and the federation of university service teachers associations of bihar fustab the teachers on fast felt that various types of irregularities in colleges and universities of the state have not only been hampering the desired academic progress but also earning a bad name to the state they observed that to break the hold of vested interests it is imperative that teachers on deputation as officers in the universities for more than five years be sent back to their parent departments for teaching work as no lien can be granted for more than five years the principle of one man one post should be strictly implemented examination department should be reorganized with an able and experienced person as examination controller on a permanent basis the practice of appointing inexperienced teachers as director of evaluation be done away with and transparency be maintained at all levels the fasting teachers also demanded that a centralized prephd test should be conducted at the state level to minimize the allegations of corruption associated with the tests being conducted by the universities separately after all why are the universities conducting one test after another without disposing off the applications for registration by the postgraduate research council they wondered the task of conducting the test at the state level may be assigned to aryabhat knowledge university aku to bring parity in evaluation of merit this will also minimize the problem of fewer number of guides being chased by a large number of students in one university the teacher leaders demanded appointment of vicechancellors through dulyconstituted search committees as per ugc guidelines appointment of teachers against sanctioned vacant posts review of the rationalization process in the larger interest of higher education and solution of the problems of teachers and nonteaching staff of 4th phase constituent colleges they further demanded recall of finance department auditors from universities as they are allegedly creating bottlenecks in smooth functioning of the universities and encouraging corrupt practices prominent among those who addressed the fasting teachers included k b sinha sanjay kumar singh arun kumar vijayendra prasad singh chandra mohan jha ashok kumar yadav and yogesh