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Chandigarh March 24, 2021

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The second meeting of high level committee of experts headed by Prof. R.P.
Tiwari, Vice Chancellor, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda was held today at 
Panjab University in offline mode with all the members present except Prof. V.S.
Chauhan, Chairman, Executive Committee, National Assessment and Accreditation
Council (NAAC]- Nominee of Chairman, UGC Member, who joined through online mode and
Director, (IIM) Amritsar who could not attend the meeting. 

        The members took cognizance of the existing governing structure of PU, its
composition and manner of its Constitution. The members also deliberated on the
governance structure of other prominent institutes like GNDU, Kurukshetra
University, Punjabi University, Delhi University, IIT, IIM etc. The members also
discussed the recommendations made by committees in the past on issue of governance
reforms of PU.

        The committee further discussed that the online portal for receiving inputs
was launched on March 12, 2021 which was to be closed on 19th March, 2021 initially
but extended till 26 March, 2021. In portal, there is a limit of 250 words. It was
decided that in case, someone wants to submit more comprehensive suggestions
exceeding this limit, they can do so by emailing the same to the Registrar, Panjab
University, Chandigarh.

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        The committee decided to meet again to examine the suggestions of
stakeholders in the month of April 2021 for deciding future course of action.

        Those present included Prof. P.K. Raina, Director, lIT, Ropar, Prof. K.N.
Pathak, former Vice Chancellor, PU, Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, PU, Dr.Jaspal
Singh Sandhu, Vice-Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar- Nominee of the
Chief Minister, Punjab, Shri S. Paramjit Singh, DPI (Colleges), Government of
Punjab, Shri Rubinderjit Singh Brar, Director (Higher Education) Chandigarh
Administration, Shri Satya Pal Jain, Additional Solicitor General of India- Nominee
of the Chancellor, Panjab University and Sh. Vikram Nayyar, Registrar, PU, Member
Secretary.

Chandigarh March 23, 2021

Prof VR Sinha, Dean of University Instructions, Panjab University Chandigarh, held an emergent meeting today to discuss the directives issued by the U.T. Chandigarh as well as the Director, Higher Education, Chandigarh regarding the containment of spread of Covid-19.

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The members unanimously recommended that:

1. The classes will continue in online mode till further orders.  However, the administrative staff of teaching departments and other offices shall continue to attend the office on all working days.

2. The online examination already scheduled shall continue as per the notified date sheet.

3. The A.C. Joshi Library and other departmental libraries shall remain closed till 31.03.2021.

4. No social gatherings including the Holi-Milan shall be held on the University campus till further orders. 

5. To ensure proper Covid-19 compliant behaviour, all gatherings (for whatever reasons) of University staff and students on the campus is banned, except with the prior permission of Deputy Commissioner, Chandigarh. 

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Those present included Prof. S.K.Tomar, Dean Student Welfare, Prof. Sukhbir Kaur, Dean Student Welfare (Women), Prof. Sanjay Kaushik, Dean College Development Council, Prof. Naval Kishore, Department of Geology, Prof. Hemant Batra, Principal-cum-Professor, Dr. Harvansh Singh Judge Institute of Dental Sciences & Hospital, Sh. Vikram Nayyar, Officiating Registrar, Dr. Jagat Bhushan, Controller of Examinations. Sh. Jivesh Bansal, Librarian and Sh. Vikram Singh, Chief of University Security.

Chandigarh March 22, 2021

A one-week web faculty training school under the initiative of UGC Networking
Resource Centre (UGC-NRC), on “TOOLS ENABLING DRUG DISCOVERY AND DRUG ANALYSIS IN
PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH” from 22 March to 27 March 2021 was inaugurated today in
online mode at the University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), Panjab
University Campus, for pharma faculty and researchers across the country by
Professor Tapas K Kundu, Director CSIR – Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow,
Uttar Pradesh.

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Professor Tapas K Kundu delivered the Key Note Address on “COVID – Treatment and
Vaccine.” Prof Kundu gave an overview of the different genomic structures
responsible for the mutation & the second peak being encountered presently. He also
discussed the challenges and opportunities in new drug discovery process and
highlighted the potential of drug repurposing in COVID 19 management. He sensitized
the audience and encouraged everyone to get vaccinated while continuing with mask
and social distancing.

Professor V. R. Sinha, Dean of University Instruction, Panjab University, in his
address described about the applications and scope of contemporary drug discovery
tools in pharmaceutical research.

Professor Indu Pal Kaur, Chairperson, UIPS and Programme Coordinator, UGC-NRC
welcomed the participants and briefed them about the achievements of UIPS and UGC-
NRC programs. Professor Renu Chadha, Course Coordinator, summarized about the course
content to the participants and Dr Neelima Dhingra, Joint Course Coordinator
conducted the proceedings of the event.

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Subsequent sessions included a lecture by Professor Gulshan Kumar Bansal, Department
of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research, Punjabi University, Patiala on “LC-MS:
A powerful tool in drug discovery and development.” The post-lunch session covered
informative talks by Professor Purnananda Guptasarma, Department of Biological
Sciences, IISER, Mohali on “Analysis of the identity, purity, conformation and
function of therapeutic proteins” and Leveraging In silico Approaches in Drug
discovery process by Dr Neelima Dhingra, Assistant Professor UIPS, Panjab
University, Chandigarh

A total of 35 participants were selected for training, hailing from various
Colleges/Universities, representing 13 different states of India. The training
school intends to apprise the young participants/researchers/ teachers about the
synthetic and analytical techniques adopted in the drug discovery and drug analysis
process; leading computational tools and their use in drug design and development
process and incorporating these tools in research projects.

UIPS is the first and the only Pharmacy Institute in the country selected by MHRD
for creating UGC Networking Resource Centre to promote and foster research and
academics in the field of Pharmaceutical Sciences by training young pharma trainers,
selected across the nation.