NAGPUR: The Nagpur University's management council has decided to send its emissary to Bihar to verify complaints of some students that degrees
they
had obtained from the university were blacklisted by the Bihar government and as a result they had been refused jobs. The council's decision came after the Bharatiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM) activists staged demonstrations in front of the university on Friday and tried to burn vice chancellor S N Pathan's effigy alleging administration's failure to secure top grade from National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and to protest against Bihar government's decision to blacklist Nagpur University's degrees. The council has unanimously decided to send member Nirmal Singh to Patna for verifying the facts and clear the confusion. When contacted, Singh confirmed that the decision has been taken to send him to Bihar, but "he had not yet receive a letter from the university registrar." He declined to make further comments. The university sources informed that there are chances of miscommunication between the Nagpur University and other institutions in Bihar as the former writes ‘Nagpur Vidyapeeth' on its degree certificates but in northern states, the degrees are not recognised because the ‘Vidyapeeth' word is in Marathi and in these states, they refer university as 'Vishwavidyalaya'. When contacted the VC's office, officials there informed that Pathan had gone to Pune for treatment of jaundice.