Appointment of lecturers for the new Environment department, that will function under the Science faculty, will also take some time. A source in the university, however, claimed it was still possible to start the course, though the session would be delayed, if the vice-chancellor so wished.The course will run on grants from the UGC. Incidentally, this will be the first new department to be started in the last couple of years, a period that saw closure of two departments; the department of Linguistics and the department of Continuing Education and Extension.

While, the first one was closed when the university contended that not a single student enrolled during the last five years, the second was closed when the state government refused to given concurrence to run it once the UGC grant period expired. Both the decisions were challenged in the court.