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Chandigarh August 20, 2021

Centre for Social Work, National Service Scheme (NSS) and Girls Hostel No.8 Panjab University, Chandigarh celebrated the festival of Rakhi with the People Living with HIV/AIDS at Girls Hostel No. 8, Sector – 25, PU Campus by tying Rakhi to Sh.Satya Pal Jain, Additional Solicitor General of India and Former Member of Parliament who was  the Chief Guest on the occasion. 

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The women also tied Rakhi to Sh. Davesh Moudgil, Former Mayor, Chandigarh and Prof Santosh Kumar, Department of Urology, PGIMER, Chandigarh who were the Guests of Honour. 

Sh Jain appreciated the efforts made by Dr. Gaurav Gaur and his whole team in organizing this important event by giving the message to the patients that they are not alone but the whole society is with them. Prof. Santosh also highlighted the importance of human relationships between different strata of people living in the society.

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Dr. Gaurav Gaur, Chairperson, Centre for Social Work shared the relevance of organizing such events. Simran Kaur, Warden, Girls hostel no.8 thanked all the guests, wardens, faculty, research scholar and all residents of the hostel in organizing this event.

Among others who were present, included Prof Meena Sharma, Dean Student Welfare(W), Prof Ashok Kumar, Associate DSW and Prof Ashwani Koul, NSS Coordinator.

Chandigarh August 19, 2021

The Centre for Police Administration, Panjab University, Chandigarh organized a special lecture on “Right to Information: Citizen Police Interface”, to celebrate and commemorate 75 years of Independence of India, by Mrs. Urvashi Gulati, IAS (Retd.) former Chief Secretary and Chief Information Commissioner, Haryana. 

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Mrs. Urvashi Gulati, termed RTI Act as a revolutionary legislation and has made the governance system participatory. While highlighting the benefits of the RTI, Act the speaker said that the strength of this legislation is low cost and simple procedure. It covers almost all the categories of Public departments/Government departments including Judiciary, RBI and Police. She observed that citizens often approach police for accessing information about their complaints, status of investigation, substance of case diaries etc. Police can deny providing the information on the ground that it may endanger the life of the people. Further, police can also deny providing personal information under sec. 8(1) (j) to protect the privacy of the police officer. Information can also be denied under sec 8(1) (h) where provision of information impedes the process of investigation and prosecution of offender. However, the speaker emphasised that ‘onus of showing that it will impede the investigation or there is such apprehension lies with the police officer’.  

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Earlier, the Chairperson of the Centre Professor Anil Monga welcomed the Speaker and said that Right to Information Act, 2005 is a landmark legislation which has not only empowered the common man but has also ushered in an era of transparency and accountability in the Governance system of India. 

The lecture was attended by Prof.Pawan Kamra, Prof.Ameer Sultana, Prof.Swarnjit Kaur, Prof.Monica Munjial, Dr.Kuldeep Singh, Dr.Gaurav Gaur, Dr.Bhawna Gupta, Dr.Jagdish Rai, Dr.Deepak Sharma, Dr.Namit Kumar, Deputy Registrar (RTI) PU, Research Scholars and Students of Centre for Police Administration. The session ended with vote of thanks by Prof. Anil Monga, Chairperson of the Centre.

Chandigarh August 17, 2021

The Department of Zoology, Panjab University Chandigarh today hosted second Virtual Distinguished lectures under the aegis of Indian Sciences Congress Association and Zoological Society of India in collaboration with Chandigarh forum for sciences and technology communication.  The session was attended by more than 100 participants.

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The session was chaired by Prof. R. C. Sobti former Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University Chandigarh, and Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Central University, Lucknow. Dr. Harpreet Kaur, Chairperson of Department of Zoology welcomed the distinguished guests and eminent speakers. The first distinguished lecture entitled “Introduction to proteomics and application of biomarker discovery” was delivered by Dr. A. K. Mohanty, Joint Director,
IVRI Campus Mukteswar.He discussed proteomics studies and the application of proteomics in various animal research. He stressed upon the differential protein expression and two major techniques to identify proteins i.e., MALDI TOF-TOF and LC-MS-MS. Further, he also highlighted the high throughput protein studies, mammalian epithelial cell and protein related to milk production and lactating protein.

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The second lecture entitled “Cloning of India’s black gold, buffalo. Waiting at a lab to reach farmer farm” was delivered byDr. Naresh L. Selokar, ScientistAnimal Biotechnology Center, ICAR-NDRI Karnal. He discussed animal cloning, importance of buffalo in farms and artificial insemination. He showed a detail video presentation of various steps of cloning method. He emphasized on the breeding and restoring of dead valuable bulls and superior buffalo bull through genotyping. He provided an insight into the transgenic clone embryos and Crisper CAS9 gene editing in farm animals. He concluded that buffalo cloning is a valuable breeding tool to compliment the artificial insemination to improve India’s buffalo germplasm.

The session ended with vote of thanks form Dr. Archana Chauhan, coordinator of the event.

Chandigarh August 13, 2021

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Dr. Rohit Sharma, Head, Department of Microbial Biotechnology, Panjab University and BioNEST-PU has recently been granted patents for two of his team’s innovations in two consecutive days. The patent entitled, “Nitrile hydrolyzing microbes for industrial use” was granted on 10^th August 2021 while another patent for the novel anti-carcinogenic extracts was granted on the following day.

Dr. Sharma shared that with the changes in conventional academic culture, the researchers and innovators are now inclined towards protecting and commercializing their intellectual property.

Dr. Sharma and his team is well-versed with extremophilic enzymes ie., the enzymes from microbial sources which are capable of functioning in extreme environmental conditions and thus have a wide range of industrial and biotechnological applications. One such enzyme is the nitrile-hydrolizing enzyme, the nitrilase which has a major application in biodegradation of toxic and recalcitrant industrial wastes and is also a key player in the synthesis of multiple carboxylic acid-based compounds. The enzyme is also known to mediate the synthesis of multiple high-value commercials, mainly pharmaceuticals and also sells globally as a bulk enzyme. In their quest for nitrile hydrolyzing microbes for industrial use, Dr. Sharma’s team included two students of PU who are now placed in MNCs and are living overseas, along with a startup company which collaborated with them to further this technology to the market.

Another team including three faculty members from the Panjab University- Dr. Rohit Sharma from the Department of Microbial Biotechnology, PU, Prof. Jasdeep Kaur and Dr. Monika Sharma from the Department of Biotechnology, PU had been working on the anti-cancer properties of plant extracts, mainly from a wild plant commonly known as ‘Jangli jalebi’ (Pithecellobium dulce). The team had successfully prepared plant extracts with anti-carcinogenic properties back in 2011 and a patent was thus filed for protection of the IP. Summarizing the importance of such extracts, Dr. Sharma explained how bio-active compounds from various natural sources, mainly plants are being researched upon. He emphasized that the medical world today is looking for alternative cancer treatments and the need to replace or at least reduce the use of chemical compounds is the need of the hour. The targeted cancer for this technology has been the breast cancer, of which more than 1 million cases are reported every year in India alone.

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Dr. Rohit Sharma along with Dr. Monika Sharma had also received the Pfizer- IIT Delhi Innovation and IP Program (PIIP) for the patent of these anti-carcinogenic extracts in 2020. Additionally Dr. Sharma stated that such awards and recognitions not only bring credit for the research and innovation, but also help the university go up a few miles on annual rankings’ charts. The team is now looking forward to the examination of certain other patents in-line for the patent grant procedure.

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