"Almost all the teachers already guide more students than the new rules allow. The ceilings are: three MPhil students and eight PhD students per professor, two MPhil and six PhD students per associate professor, and one MPhil and four PhD scholars per assistant professor. Data on the university's PhD students, which The Telegraph has obtained under the Right to Information Act, bear this out. Under the ceilings, they can teach a maximum of 64 PhD students, but the centre already has 93 PhD students. Janak Pandey, former vice-chancellor of the Central University of Bihar, said that even eight PhD students was too many for a professor to guide.

Source: The Telegraph January 22, 2017 21:48 UTC