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Chandigarh May 11, 2021

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Third lecture series ‘Learn the ropes with alumni’ was held today at UIFT &VD with Divya Bhagat. She pursued her graduation and post-graduation in Fashion and Lifestyle Technology from UIFT, Panjab University. After doing her Masters from UIFT, she did a course on Fashion Styling from London School of Trents. She worked as a Fashion Merchandiser in the Garment Industry and is now a Fashion Design Faculty with INIFD Chandigarh.  Around 80 students joined her webinar. She spoke about “International Fashion Runway” to the current students of the department.

Divya Bhagat, shared her journey with the students, what they should keep in mind and practice while they are pursuing their course.She motivated them to learn with in-depth study on fabrics, silhouettes, design, pattern and the making of garments. She also laid importance of doing regular internships so that the academic and practical aspect polishes the learner and makes him/her ready for this apparel/garment /fashion industry. She talked about opportunities that she got at UIFT when she back staged many fashion shows. She also shared her experiences working on different websites, working as a merchandiser and how she learnt about various fabrics and their drapes.

Divya gave an insight about the backend working of International fashion runway shows. She shared her experiences of being a part of London Fashion Week for 3 years, while explaining how international fashion designers work and elaborated the difference between working with national and international designers. Laying importance on Sustainability, she also elaborated how students can do a lot of DIY projects in upcycling of old clothes encouraging them to adapt sustainable fashion design practices. Later  she discussed the importance of social media in the upcoming fashion market.According to Divya “Being focused, working hard towards the goal and knowing the latest are important for a fashion design learner to be successful”.

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Dr Anu H. Gupta, Chairperson UIFT & VD welcomed and appreciated Divya for her achievements, sincere efforts and dedication towards her work as a merchandiser, designer and Faculty of Fashion.

Her talk inspired and motivated many students to think about different fields of Fashion Industry that they can take up as a career. Participants found the session  very interesting, informative and had their queries answered from the speaker.

Chandigarh May 10, 2021

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In the wake of second surge of Covid 19 crisis, Prof. Seema Vinayak, Chairperson, Department of Psychology, Panjab University has initiated a social outreach programme for PU fraternity to provide psychological help for Covid related stress/anxiety. Strict confidentiality shall be maintained for all help seekers.

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She will be available for tele-counselling as per schedule given below:-

Monday to Friday  

Morning –   10-11 am

Evening –    5-6 pm.

Contact No. 9814211641

Chandigarh May 8, 2021

Panjab University in  association with Bhartiya Shikshan Mandal, Punjab And Red Cross Society, Punjab, on the eve of World Red Cross day  organised a virtual awareness lecture under the title “ Role of Civil Society in fight against Pandemic”.

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Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor of P.U. in his address said that Civil Society is the most effective cooperative unit to fight against adversaries. He further added that Man has become the most formidable and fit creature on the earth, due to its acumen and agility to evolve the civilised societies. Man has learned the relevance of mutual cooperation, complementarity and harmony to tackle most of the challenges faced by living creatures. 

Sh. Avinash Rai Khanna, renowned thinker and social worker, related the obligations and role of a actual civilised society with formation and working of Indian Red Cross Society. Sh. Khanna urged every youth and capable member of Indian civil society to come forward with dedication to discharge their “ manav dharma” and “ samaj dhrama” holding it be most sacrosanct facet of Idea of justice propagated by Indian Civilisation. Sh. Khanna advised educational institutions to aware the youth to donate blood before being vaccinated, help lonely senior citizens whose children are serving away from home as army personnel or front line fighters and institutions should prepare consultation panels of medical students to aware the needy.

Dr. Umashankar Pachauri, All Indian General Secretary of Bhartiya Shikshan Mandal, quoted some anecdotes and stories from ancient Indian history, where to tackle the pandemic and adversaries every affluent member of Indian Society distribute all their earning among society at large and especially for marginalised sections. Dr Pachauri appealed to the audience to make everyone aware that one should restraint from being self centric by collecting medicine like Remidesivir for future, when other needy patients are suffering due to its urgent need. 

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Along with hundreds of research scholars, academicians and students of P.U.,Dr. Vishal Sharma, Warden of Banda Bahadur Hostel, Dr. Manisha Sharma, Warden of Mother Teressa Hostel, Dr. Gaurav Gaur, Social Work Department, P.U.  were present.

Chandigarh May 7, 2021

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In another milestone for Panjab University, Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, today launched e-Library services for the registered users of the University. PU VC in his address said that it is a momentous moment for PU to extend this facility to the faculty, researchers and students of PU to access around 15000 plus e-Journals, several thousand e-books, databases etc from their safe environments in the current pandemic situation.

            Dr. Jivesh Bansal, University Librarian provided an overview of the PU e-Library and said that this facility will be provided to all the registered users of Panjab University at Chandigarh and all the Regional Centres along with the faculty of all the affiliated Colleges. He further informed that the PU e-Library is a rich content platform through which all the subscribed e-resources, eShodhSindhu resources, Web-OPAC, Institutional Content will be provided to all the registered users of the PU. The e-Library aggregates all the library collections, open Access resources, multimedia learning content and electronic document repositories all on one platform. This facility can be accessed on any device from anywhere. The platform will also provide a Mobile e-Library App (for both Android & iOS) which offers a multi-format, content delivery app for users to consume eBook collections, e-Course material, latest journal issues and multimedia learning content. Patrons can access the e-Library from Library Webpage as well through mobile app.

            Mr. Rahul Agarwalla, owner of Knimbus also spoke about the features and scope of eLibrary.

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            Dr. Jagat Bhushan, Chairperson, e-Resources Committee & Controller of Examinations expressed his gratitude to Vice-Chancellor because of whose vision and able guidance, library was able to materialize this achievement. He also acknowledged the efforts of the entire team of PU library towards providing this facility to users.