PATNA, April 6 -- The controversy-ridden appointment of assistant professors in Bihar has faced yet another roadblock, with the Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University (Muzaffarpur) writing to the Bihar State University Service Commission (BSUSC) and the department of higher education for specific guidelines to determine the yardstick for verification of experience certificates after the recommendation has been made.

The guidelines have been sought following detection by the university that several candidates got shortlisted and also selected on the basis of experience certificates, which were either fake or never issued in accordance with the laid down provisions, but passed the scrutiny at the level of BSUSC, and now the universiti...