BHOPAL: In a first, Barkatullah University Vice Chancellor Prof RJ Rao has started taking weekly meeting to review progress of ongoing projects besides smooth functioning of various departments. The first meeting was held this Friday at ‘Satya Bhawan’, the administrative block. Departments related to administration of university like establishment, finance, examination and maintenance were part of this meeting.
Prof Rao said that the system of weekly meetings will continue. Heads of the department will brief progress of previous week besides presenting plan for the next week. In the beginning, meeting of all departments present in the administrative block will be called. Depending on the feedback and result, the weekly meetings will expand to academic departments as well, added Rao.
The first meeting convened discussed issues related to students and examinations. Sources said that Rao, who was appointed in September 2018, had to put in extra efforts to trace files related to work. The departments used to pass the buck to others when an important file was sought by the VC. Ultimately VC called heads of all departments and traced the file thereby deciding that a weekly meeting would not only solve issue related to tracing files but also built a better coordination.