Now choice-based credit system at Rajju Bahiya state university

PRAYAGRAJ : Taking a step towards implementing provisions of National Education Policy (NEP)-2020, Prof Rajendra Singh (Rajju Bhaiya) State University (PRSSU), Prayagraj, has begun efforts to introduce choice-based credit system (CBCS) for post graduate courses on its campus.

CBCS will be introduced in the first year of PG courses for all new students from 2021-22 session, confirm university officials. The CBCS will provides an opportunity for the students to choose courses from the prescribed courses comprising core, elective/minor or skill-based courses. “A committee under prof Vivek Kumar Singh, dean (arts faculty), has been formed for this mission and its recommendations will become available soon. The proposal will then be put before the appropriate bodies of the institution including

We will also be introducing a new evaluation mechanism of 10point grading system

PROF AKHILESH KUMAR SINGH, PRSSU’s vice chancellor

the academic and the executive council before being implemented,” said PRSSU’s vice chancellor prof Akhilesh Kumar Singh.

The VC said all departments had already begun work for revising course curriculum as per norms and needs of CBCS for courses including MA in Ancient Indian History, social work, philosophy, Hindi, Sanskrit, political science, sociology, economics, defence and strategic studies, geography as well as M Com course. “Likewise, we will also be introducing a new evaluation mechanism of 10-point grading system,” he added. Once the CBCS gets introduced, students taking admission in 2021-22 session on the university campus would study the revised curriculum and get evaluated under the new grading system while those students already enrolled in PG courses would continue to study the older curriculum and be graded.