BHU Ayurveda Faculty Faces NCISM Hearing on Low Biometric Attendance

BHU’s Faculty of Ayurveda spent Friday answering the national regulator on biometric attendance. The National Commission for Indian System of Medicine held an online hearing; a Saturday 22 August 2026 brief published about 02:13 IST summarised the exchange. No penalty from that sitting appears in the published copy.

NCISM sought BHU’s reply on low biometric attendance, on action relating to the teachers concerned, and on steps to keep attendance regular going forward. Dean Prof. K.N. Murthy and other faculty members joined the hearing online.

Teachers pointed to machine delay and Wi-Fi speed as factors affecting biometric marking. The commission asked for measures to ensure regular attendance in future. The Saturday report does not record a penalty from this hearing. That absence matters: a hearing is not the same as a finished disciplinary outcome.

Biometric systems in a large faculty sit between regulatory compliance and campus IT. Device queues, network drops and duty patterns outside a single punch window can all drag recorded percentages down even when staff dispute what the numbers mean. Friday’s hearing, as published, reads as a compliance exchange — reply sought, technical snags cited, forward measures demanded — not a ban, a shutdown or a finished disciplinary award.

Dean Prof. K.N. Murthy joined the online NCISM hearing with other faculty members, the Saturday brief said.

The episode is kept apart from any pharmacy public-private partnership review on the wider Ayurveda faculty beat. It is not a closure notice and not a finding that named teachers have been suspended. The brief does not print the biometric percentage table NCISM may have reviewed, and it does not name individual teachers beyond the dean’s presence. Inventing either would overreach the source.

For students and patients linked to the faculty, the immediate public fact is regulatory scrutiny of attendance systems, not an announced break in clinics or classes. For the university, the commission’s ask for future regular-attendance measures points toward follow-up paperwork — device audits, network upgrades or revised punch protocols — that may be expected. None of those remedies is confirmed as ordered in the Saturday report.

The brief was timed at about 02:13 IST on Saturday, 22 August 2026, summarising Friday’s online exchange without listing a biometric percentage table or naming individual teachers beyond the dean.

No penalty was reported from Friday’s online sitting; NCISM’s published ask was for BHU’s reply on low biometric attendance and for measures to keep biometric marking regular going forward.