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Chandigarh, May 26, 2019

Panjab University Senate considered all the agenda items in its 
meeting here today. 

PU Senate gave felicitations to Hon’ble Prime Minister of India Sh. 
Narendra Modi, for the next term of the NDA Government. It also gave felicitations  for PU fellows Smt. Kirron Kher, Member of Parliament, Dr. Amar Singh, IAS (Retd.), Ludhiana, and former fellow Sh. Manish Tiwari for winning the Lok Sabha elections including PU Alumni Sh. Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Sh. Sukhbir Singh Badal. 

PU Senate welcomed Dr. Paramjit Singh, Principal, Government College, 
Hoshiarpur for his first PU Senate Meeting and also congratulated Sh. D.P.S. Randhawa, for being elected as President, Bar Association, Punjab & Haryana High Court, Chandigarh. 

 PU Senate approved the extension of Prof. Shankarji Jha, Dean of 
University Instruction for another year w.e.f. 1.5.2019.        

 PU Senate approved the appointment of Prof. Deepti Gupta, Deptt of English and Cultural Studies as Dean Alumni Relations for a period of one year.

PU Senate, regarding roster of teaching position i.e. Assistant Professors, 
discussed the agenda item and it was resolved that on the basis of revised directions of UGC, a fresh roster be prepared and to be taken to the next Syndicate. 

 PU Senate gave further extension of one year w.e.f June 1, 2019 to Dr. 
Devinder Dhawan, Chief Medical Officer, Bhai Ghanaiya Ji Institute of Health, PU.

PU Senate also decided to prepare a comprehensive policy for all aided 
Colleges and the agenda be taken to the next Syndicate. 

 PU Senate approved the recommendations of Syndicate to rationalise the fee structure and other charges for courses offered in the University Teaching Departments and Regional Centre of Panjab University, Chandigarh for the session 2019-20. The proposed amount for the concessions have been enhanced for the session 2019-20 to  Rs. 
3,16,00,000/- as compared to Rs. 2,46,12,092/- for 2018-19.

Henceforth, the fee structure of the University shall be determined for the 
complete programme/course and not for each academic session. 

As per the recommendations, there shall be no enhancement for the students in ongoing programme for the traditional courses and partially self-financed courses, informed Prof. Karamjeet Singh, Registrar, PU. However, for fresh students to traditional courses there shall be an enhancement of Rs. 500/- per annum and thereafter, in the subsequent years (2020-21 onwards), it shall be enhanced @ 5% to be rounded off to the next hundred. In addition, development of Rs. 500/- per annum shall 
also be charged from the students, he added. 

For students seeking fresh admissions in the session 2019-20 for partially 
self-financed courses, there shall be enhancement of 7.5% (subject a ceiling of Rs. 7500/- p.a.) and thereafter, the fee for the subsequent years ( 2020-21 onwards) shall be enhanced @ 5% to be rounded off to next hundred. 
        PU Senate approved for no enhancement in the fees of the following courses:-
1.      (MBA) P.U.R.C. Ludhiana
2.      UIAMS (all courses)
3.      PU Constituent Colleges
a.      BCA
b.      PGDCA
c.      BA B.Com
d.      MA Punjabi(Sikhwala College, Sri Muktsar Sahib)

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Chandigarh, May 25, 2019

The sixth day of the workshop on Qualitative Research Methods in Social
Sciences organised by Centre for Academic Leadership &
Education Management (CALEM), Department of Education, Panjab
University, Chandigarh focussed on narratives, testimonies and
ambiguities in issues of equity and social justice in qualitative research. 
Dr Satvinderpal Kaur, the program coordinator introduced the
speakers of the day.  

In the first two sessions Ranjana Padhi, visiting faculty, Tata Institute of
Social Sciences, Mumbai focused on using narrative inquiry and
testimonials as qualitative research methods. She focused on
understanding narratives enquiries in social studies and how narratives
breathe life in quantitative research. Narratives can bring to light the
hardships and coping potentials of suffering peasantry and help to affirm
their voices of sanity against modernization. She described that
testimonies reveal the feelings and thought process of individuals.  She
elaborated that though the silence of individuals is difficult to break to pen
down testimony but when this silence is broken it has lot to search for.
She emphasized the need to construe that testimony is not just a speech,
but a story that depicts the situation of individuals of the community. 
In third session, Prof. S. Srinivasa Rao, Chairperson Zakir Hussain Centre
for Educational Studies, JNU, New Delhi dwelled on conceptual
ambiguities and methodological issues of equity and social justice. He
shared the sociological aspects where it is the part of society to treat each
other differently and the same has been found in primitive society which
were not egalitarian completely. 

 The sessions were very interactive where participants shared their
experiences. He explained that how inequalities in the society are created
with varied kinds of discrimination. He also elaborated on the queries of
the participants.

 
The day concluded with vote of thanks by Dr. Kuldeep Kaur, Program and
CALEM Co-coordinator.

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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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