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Chandigarh, May 25, 2019

The graduates of Panjab University, Chandigarh in the Faculty of
Engineering and Technology during the year 2018 wore the graduation
gowns during the degree award ceremony held here today in the
University Auditorium. 

Total of 863 passed out students of three engineering institutes of
PU namely University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET),
Chandigarh, Dr. S. S. Bhatnagar University Institute of Chemical
Engineering and Technology (Dr SSBUICET), Panjab University
Chandigarhand and UIET UIET Swami Sarvanand Giri Panjab University
Regional Centre (SSGPURC) in, Hoshiarpur were awarded the degrees by
Prof. V.K. Malhotra, Member secretary, Indian Council of Social Science
Research, New Delhi. Prof. R.K. Sinha, Director, CSIR-Central Scientific
Instruments Organization, Chandigarh was the Guest of Honour on the
occasion.

The degrees were awarded to 591 graduates and post graduates
from UIET Chandigarh, 162 BE graduates of SSGPURC Hoshiarpur, 162
graduates and post graduates of Dr SSBUICET Chandigarh. 

11 number of Young Assistant Professors and Research Scholars
from UIET Chandigarh, 4 from Dr SSBUICET Chandigarh and 3 from
SSGPURC, Hoshiarpur who published their research work in reputed
journals during the last year were also honoured on the occasion.
 

Prof. V.K. Malhotra, chief guest of the day, delivered the convocation address on the occasion. He emphasized on pursuance of excellence to bring India on the forefronts of technology to provide solutions for mankind. He urged students to reach at par with top performing universities internationally. He stressed on the need for increasing funding for research as well as higher education which should be atleast 2-2.5% of the nation’s GDP. He concluded his address by saying that students must possess relevant skill sets along with an urge to learn to enhance their employment prospects.

Earlier, Prof Raj Kumar, Vice chancellor welcomed the chief guest
and extended felicitations to the students and wished them good luck for
their future. He addressed the students as the future ambassadors of the
institute as well as the country. He narrated contributions of technological
development in the region and appreciated the accomplishments of young
graduates at various platforms. He emphasized that the students should be the providers of jobs and they should deliver in spite of all the hardships. He congratulated all the graduates and urged them to work hard for their bright future.

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Chandigarh May 24, 2019 

The fifth day of the seven days National workshop on Qualitative Research 
Methods in Social Sciences organised by Centre for Academic Leadership & Education Management (CALEM), Department of Education, Panjab University, Chandigarh focused on various techniques of qualitative research and the data analysis process involved in it. 

The first session started with an interactive session by Prof. Narender Kumar from JNU, New Delhi on discourse  and content analysis with focus on Exclusion Equity and Social justice where the speaker developed quite profoundly, on the nuances that differentiate discourse analysis from content analysis. He dwelled further comprehensively on the scope and steps of both methods to be pursued by the researchers. 

The followed two sessions of the day were taken by Prof. Sudarshan C. 
Panigrahi from MS University, Baroda where he clarified the fundamental differences underlying the ontological and epistemological assumptions of qualitative and quantitative research that leads to distinct views of reality. In the last session he explicated with examples on data analysis techniques specifically in social sciences. 

The sessions concluded with questions from the participants which added value to the sessions.

 Earlier, Dr. Kuldeep Kaur, the program coordinator introduced the speakers of the day. 

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