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Chandigarh May 10, 2022

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Central Placement Cell organised a function at UIAMS Conference hall to distribute scholarship to the students of Panjab University, Chandigarh on 10^th May, 2022. These scholarships were granted to the students by the “Sarbat Da Bhala” charitable trust.

Dr. Amandeep Singh Marwaha, Associate Director, (CPC) and Training cum Placement Officer , UIAMS, enlightened about the various activities of the trust and about the event to the beneficiary students and participants in his introductory remarks.

Prof Meena Sharma, Director Central Placement Cell, Panjab University Chandigarh welcomed the Chief Guest Prof. Renu Vig, Dean University Instructions and Guest of Honour Mr. Sukhjeev  Singh Bajaj, CEO – IFM FinCoach and the student beneficiaries and participants. . Prof Sharma briefly enlightened the students about the help provided by the trust in past and how helpful it has been to students looking at the current state of economy. She also advised the students that they should also work hard and succeed in their career and give back to the society in similar fashion.

Prof. Renu Vig expressed gratitude towards trust. She also highlighted that there is no shortcuts to success and students should not be disheartened by the failures as these are stepping stones for future success.

Mr. Sukhjeev  Singh Bajaj and his team members also interacted with the students and had a special career guidance session in the BFSI(Banking Finance Service & Insurance)  sector .

This year in 2022, 12 students from various departments like Evening Studies, Chemistry, Math, UICET, UIPS, Economics, Education, Zoology, and IETVE have been provided with the scholarships totalling of Rs. 80,000. Sarbat da Bhala is a charitable trust which was started by Prof (Dr) S.P. Singh Oberoi. This philanthropic body is dedicated to the cause of extending economic benefits to the underprivileged and hitherto neglected sections of the society. Rules have been framed for the purpose and a scholarship holder will be one whose parents’ annual income is less than 5 Lac rupees, has 50% marks in the qualifying examination and fulfils the mandatory class attendance conditions.

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The event ended with a formal vote of thanks by Professor Anupreet Kaur Mavi Officiating Director, UIAMS who highlighted that this event gave the students an insight into the career in BFSI Sector and she also thanked the Sarbat Da Bhala trust for providing scholarships to the meritorious and needy students.

Chandigarh March 30, 2022

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The Institute of Forensic Science and Criminology, Panjab University, Chandigarh organized a one day National level webinar on ‘Forensic Examination of IEDs in terrorist cases’ on March 30, 2022. The Chairperson, Dr. Vishal Sharma hosted the webinar and welcomed the guests. He emphasized the importance of the examination of IED DEVICES AND BLAST RESIDUE in order to understand the type of blast, its intensity and explosive used in the said blast. This topic is very important for the budding forensic students as the blast often happen in many region of the country. Such type of examination also important to know about the cross boarder terrorism.

            The distinguished scientist and Forensic expert Dr. N.B.Bardhan, former Director of CFSL CBI, New Delhi, gave a talk titled Forensic Examination of IEDs in terrorist cases.” He presented an intriguing talk about explosives. He started his talk with brief description about explosives and its types. He mentioned about the crime scene reconstruction of cases related to IED blast, further added properties of explosives and categorized explosives into five kinds. He further emphasized the need for considering and analyzing material evidence carefully as it often gets contaminated if not handled properly or at times get fabricated. He even added the mechanism of various explosives. He ended his talk by discussing some of the famous cases involving explosive devices such as Mumbai Blast Case and discussed some very unusual cases happening on IED blast these days.

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More than 60 delegates participated in the webinar including Scientist from forensic labs, faculty and students and research scholars from various Universities. Dr. Vishal Sharma, Convener of the webinar, thanked the speaker and all the participants.

Chandigarh March 27, 2022

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It is almost after a gap of more than two years, the Senate meeting was conducted in the blended mode(Online and Offline), where 58 fellows attended the meeting physically, and around 10 fellows joined the meeting through the online mode. There was an extensive discussion on the first agenda item regarding the recommendations of the Board of Finance(BoF) meeting held on March 11, 2022. A number of fellows deliberated on this issue and it was resolved that on behalf of the Governing body of Panjab University i.e. Senate, newly elected Government of Punjab may be forwarded a representation in the form of request letter to implement the 7th Pay Commission  for Panjab University teachers. It was also discussed that a circular may be issued to the non-teaching employees of the University to choose the appropriate option regarding the implementation of the 6th Pay Commission, so that, once the grant is received, the disbursement would be made accordingly later on. During the deliberation on this agenda item, various fellows shared the emergent need of generating funds at the University level itself. It was discussed that it is the collective responsibility of all the employees of the University to share their valuable inputs and plans for the generation of funds at the University level.

The long pending promotion policy of the faculty of HSJ Dental College, Panjab University is accepted in principle as proposed by the committee constituted by the  Vice Chancellor. The modalities e.g BOF approvals and any other requirements would be worked out.

In an important agenda item regarding the attachment orders of building and demand notices of property tax of worth Rs. 21 crores by Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh, it was resolved that  ‘Panjab University is one of the prestigious Universities and it should not be treated as a non-government entity/private/commercial institution’ and hence, on behalf of governing house of Panjab University i.e. Senate and Syndicate, a resolution is passed to request Chandigarh Administration for the exemption from property tax under Municipal Corporation Act.

In a major agenda item regarding implementation of the roster of non-teaching SC employees, it was resolved by the house that ‘in principle, the house agreed to the promotion policy of the SC employees of Panjab University and a quantifiable data would be collected regarding the same in terms of the relevant legal provisions and after words, the same would be implemented’.

In an important agenda item, in context to setting up of Technology Enabling Centre at Panipat, Haryana, in the 3800 Sq Yard land of Panjab University, the Vice Chancellor apprised the house that negotiations with the Government of Haryana and the Centre Government are on regarding the setting up of the Incubation-cum-Skill Development Centre which is proposed by the Panjab University to come up at this land. The outcome would be shared by the Vice-Chancellor accordingly.

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During the meeting, one of the senior most fellows asked about the contribution made by 43 Professor Emeritus in different departments of the University. He said that it is pertinent to know about the contribution of these Professors especially in the area of research in context to the research and how they are contributing in the research and development of Panjab University.

For the CAS promotion of Dr. Kirandeep Singh, Department of Education and Prof. Sukhwinder Singh, Department of Computer Science, UIET, Panjab University, the Vice Chancellor is authorised to form a committee to look into the matter and all similar cases may be considered collectively rather than doing a stand-alone case for one faculty member.

In an another agenda for providing job to Robin Inderpal Singh son of late Dr. Parminder Singh, former Director, Sports, Panjab University, it was resolved to appoint him as Assistant Professor purely on temporary basis and a committee will be constituted by the Vice Chancellor to recommend the department where he would be appointed.

In an agenda item to reduce the seats  in PG Course, MA Sanskrit from 68 to 40 would be looked after again by the Vice Chancellor to explore the possibility of making the admission process flexible so that, new and more students can be attracted for these courses so as to save and help this ancient and very important rich language of our country.

In another agenda item, house unanimously approved the charges to allow the shooting of films etc at the Panjab University.

The Senate approved the recommendations of the Joint Academic and Administrative Committees of HSJ Dental College regarding the fees structure proposed for the NRI Students of MDS.

A high powered committed to be constituted by the Vice Chancellor to consider the recommendation of the inspection committee regarding the different issues raised against Kalgidhar Institute of Higher Education at Sri Muktsar Sahib.