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Chandigarh September 6, 2020

SC/ST Cell of Panjab University, Chandigarh organized a webinar on the theme “Welfare Policies and Schemes for the Growth and Development of SCs and STs in Higher Education: With Special Reference to NEP-2020”. 

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Co-ordinator-cum-Liaison Officer, SC/ST Cell, Panjab University, Prof. M. C. Sidhu, welcomed the Vice Chancellor, speakers and the participants.

 The Chief Guest of the webinar, Prof. Raj Kumar Vice Chancellor, Panjab University, congratulated the faculty on the teacher’s day. Speaking at the inaugural session of the webinar, he emphasized to devise and implement policies to provide better academic support to the students belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribe Categories with a special reference for the education of the girl students. The Vice chancellor also stressed upon providing access to the resources and allowing participation of students of these categories at all levels. He also advised the organizers to prepare a roadmap for the implementation of NEP-2020 bwith special reference to SC/ST students. 

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Dr. Raja Sekhar Vundru Principal Secretary to Government of Haryana, enlightened the participants about the “Constitutional Mandate and the Development of Higher Education among SC/ST and Backward Classes”. He briefed the participants about the welfare policies initiated by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar like Post Matric Scholarship and National Overseas Scheme for higher education.

Prof. Rattan Singh, former Director of University Institute of Legal Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh has discussed the “Appraisal of National Policies on Education Over the Years in the Context of Welfare Schemes for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes: With Special Reference to NEP-2020”. Prof Singh said that there should be analytical studies for the growth of students and effective implementation of welfare policies based on equality and equity. 

More than 120 participants have attended the webinar. The participants have discussed their concerns related to the NEP-2020 with both the experts, said Prof. Sidhu. The webinar was hosted by Dr. Naresh Kumar, UIET and discussion part was managed by Dr. Rajni, Assistant Professor, USOL and Organizing Secretary of webinar. 

Prof. Supinder Kaur, Department of Laws and Co-convener of webinar presented the theme of the webinar. At the end vote of thanks was delivered by Prof. Anil Kumar, UIPS and Co-convener of webinar. Participants appreciated the efforts of the organizers for the conduct of such an informative and interactive webinar.

Chandigarh September 4, 2020

A Webinar on New Education Policy: A roadmap for Engineering Education was organized by UIET, Panjab University, Chandigarh ,today. The event commenced with an introductory message by Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor who has been associated with NEP since the beginning and also gave inputs in the framing of NEP. PU VC also gave some optimistic insight into the fact that although pandemic is a curse, it has certainly given the opportunity of development to domains like engineering and medicine.

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Subsequently Prof. Dheeraj Sanghi,Director PEC spoke about the aspects of New Education Policy related to higher education. He cited the chapters from New Education Policy that are related to higher education. He talked about the aspect of multidisciplinary education. In the curriculum, there should be interdisciplinary courses. There should be more flexibility in the courses chosen by the students i.e. more elective courses should be offered to the students.

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Prof.Sanghi pointed out that it is very natural that the minds of students, as well as faculties, will resist these changes that this policy demands but we need to overcome this resistance. The NEP caters to the major problem that the college students face about not knowing exactly what they want to study in college or what are their interests. The provision of Dual Major will be provided i.e. one person having computer science engineering shall be allowed to opt for psychology also. It was also discussed as to how important it is to make a robust lateral entry system if we want to implement the NEP in a good way.

Prof.Sanghi also pointed to the fact that the policy gives the flexibility to the universities to implement the changes recommended at a time they find appropriate i.e. either from this batch or from the next session. He also talked about Academic Bank of Credit (ABC) which will be established to digitally store the academic credits earned from various recognised higher educational institutes so that the credits earned in the previous years can be awarded after entering into the programme again. With this ABC, the fear of wastage of years is avoided.

Continuous evaluation will be there rather than having one major exam at the end of the semester which has almost 70 % of credit or marks. He also added that tenure track recruitment should be there for faculties in which the teaching ability of the teacher will be evaluated after every 5-6 years. He then talked about the use of technology through online and digital courses. He talked about a big caveat of NEP which states that the quality of the online courses should be as good as the best on-campus programme of the higher educational institution. He said that such a scenario is not possible in the present situation and can only be made possible after approximately 10 years from now. More than 40% of courses shall be offered online to reduce the teaching load that will also provide an ample amount of time to the faculty for research work. He also discussed Faculty development programmes that should be conducted more frequently.  Employability will automatically improve if a good batch of students graduate as  industry will  be interested to recruit them.