Punjabi University to open 7 new colleges

With a view to providing easy access to colleges to the students from educationally backward districts of Punjab in terms of higher education, as many as seven constituent colleges affiliated to Punjabi University, Patiala, would be inaugurated in the first week of August.

Dean (Colleges), Punjabi University, Dr JA Khan informed that these colleges have been constituted under a collaborative scheme of the Central and state government. He informed that according to a survey conducted at the Central level, as many as 374 districts have been identified throughout India for such colleges because the Gross Enrolment Ratio of these districts in terms of higher education is less than the National Enrolment Ratio.

He further disclosed that these colleges have been built at Ghudda, Sardulgarh (Mansa), Jaito, Dhilwan (Barnala), Moonak (Sangrur), Chunni Kalan (Fatehgarh Sahib) and Ghanour.

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Punjabi University to construct Sri Guru Granth Sahib Bhawan

Punjabi University will construct a new monumental building to be named as Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Bhawan, among other things, to mark its golden jubilee year celebrations. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the University syndicate, held under the chairmanship of the Vice-Chancellor, Dr Jaspal Singh here today.

The syndicate welcomed and agreed to the proposal of the Vice-Chancellor to increase the pay packages of the employees working on contractual basis and putting them in regular scale.

 It was decided to increase the monthly wages of those employees, who were working on a fixed salary of Rs 4,000 to Rs 6,000 and of those who were working on Rs 6,000 to Rs 8,000. The Vice-Chancellor's suggestion that the contractual employees, having minimum of three years of regular service in the University and possessing good service record, should be appointed on ad hoc basis in the regular scale was also affirmed by the syndicate. A screening committee will be constituted to determine the eligibility, other conditions and modalities for this purpose.

The meeting gave its nod to add Environmental Sciences to the nomenclature of Department of Zoology and for starting a new course of M.Sc. Environmental Sciences. It also gave its approval to start new courses on the University campus and its various neighbourhood campuses.These, among others, include B.A. (Hons) in Journalism, Mass Communication and Media Technology; B.Sc. in Tourism Management, PG Diploma courses in Child Care and Skill Development; Computer Maintenance & Networking; Internet and Web Designing; Sikh Theology; Agricultural Marketing and BBA/MBA by newly established School of Applied Management from the forthcoming session.

PhD entrance test on July 30

Punjabi University, Patiala, has announced the date of entrance test to PhD.The test will be conducted on July 30. Students, who cleared the exam last year, have not been allotted seats so far. Last year also, many students, who cleared the exam, had to return empty handed, as university did not have seats.

Students are perturbed over the university’s decision. They said the university should either accommodate those students or exempt them from taking the test every year.
“This causes problem, as it takes three years for a student to finish his or her research. Whereas the test is valid for a year. Taking test again and again is wastage of time and money.

 If the university cannot accommodate all students, it should at least form a rule that students who have cleared the exam should not take the test again. Anyone, who clears an entrance test, can apply for a seat whenever its vacant,” said one of the students.

Chandan Singh, Dean, research, said the test would be valid for one year. “In case students don’t get seats and one year passes, they will have to take the test again,” he added.
When questioned about the students who did not get seats last year, Chandan Singh said the university could not help it.

He said, “University professors can guide only limited number of students and we don’t ensure that everyone who clears the test would get a seat. We tried our level best to accommodate maximum number of students.”

Sources in the university said keeping in view the number of students, who had cleared the entrance test last year, the university authorities had requested professors in various affiliated colleges to give admission to students, but the response was not good.

Punjabi medium students get paper in English

The Punjabi University’s claims of promoting Punjabi language fell flat today when the Theatre and Television Department’s Punjabi medium students got their question paper in English.

A student of the department informed that 14 out of 16 students had opted Punjabi as a medium for the examination. “We were shocked to see the question paper in English. Many of us faced difficulty in comprehending the questions and when we brought the matter to the notice of the superintendent, he refused to do anything in the matter,” he said.

Other students informed that they had simply asked the superintendent to get the paper translated for their convenience, but he misbehaved with them. “He asked us to take the examination or walk out. We requested him to allow us to talk to higher authorities, but he refused and stating that if we walked out of the room, he will not let us in again. I did the paper according to my understanding of the English language,” he added.

Controller of Examination Pawan Kumar Singla said no such matter had been brought to his notice, but he would certainly look into the matter.


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Punjabi University Law Department makes history by winning the National moot court competition

The Punjabi University Law Department made history by winning the  National moot  court competition  recently held at C.R Law College Hisar. In this National moot  court competition  18 teams from all over the country participated.

President Jat Educational Society Shri Sunil Kumar Lamba gave away the  trpophy to the winning team. A team  from  Law Department, Punjabi University Patiala lead by Dr.Bhupinder Singh Virk and Dr Pushpinder kaur Dhillon,consisting of Jagpreet kaur Atwal ,Heena Kampani, Harmanpreet Dhaliwal, Arshdeep Singh Dhillon and Udaypartap singh Shergill participated in this competetion and won the trophy.distributed the prizes to the winning team.

Vice chancellor Punjabi university Dr.Jaspal Singh and Vice chancellor Rajiv Gandhi national university of law,Patiala Dr P.S. Jaiswal honoured the winning team at a special function held at Punjabi University,Patiala.