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Panjab University, Chandigarh has decided to conduct the first ever online examinations of Undergraduate(UG) and Postgraduate (PG) Courses from 17^th September, 2020. However, the practicals for UG/PG exit or terminal classes will be conducted online from 10-15 September 2020.

The Roll number of the students will be uploaded on the University website from Sept12,2020.The UG Examinations will be of 2 hours duration from 9 am – 11 am. The question papers as per date Sheet will be uploaded on the University website www.puchd.ac.in at 8.30 AM and it will also be emailed to Chairperson/Director/ Principal. The Chairperson/Director/Principal will send the question paper to the concerned student using different electronic modes. The Director / Principal of the Institute/College/USOL will upload the question paper at their official website also. The students will be able to download the same from the PU Website i.e. puchd.ac.in. After 2 hours, the students will send a scanned answer book by uploading the same to the source. If by any chance, they are unable to submit online, the facility is provided to submit the same in the sealed envelope physically to the nearest Nodal Centre or by Registered/Speed Post and the list of all Nodal Centres will be uploaded on the University website. Similarly the PG exam will be held from 10am-12am.

The candidate will be required to attempt 50% of the question paper by choosing any questions. However, the student shall ensure that he/ she has attempted an answer carrying 50% of the maximum marks where 50% is fraction (2.5 will be 2). They will not be asked to attempt any compulsory question. . The candidates will solve the question paper from their location on A4 size paper in his handwriting with a maximum page limit of 12 sheets of which only one side has to be used. The candidate is required to write his/her roll no/class/paper/course and signature on each sheet.

In case, the student cannot appear online, a special extra chance will be given to appear in the physical exam as and when the situation improves.

The evaluation will be completed within 5 days of termination of exams and results will be declared accordingly.

Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor has constituted a special Monitoring Coordination Committee which will be monitoring the issues on day to day basis related to exams, technical hurdles, administrative issues and logistics pertaining to online exams. A special dedicated email will be generated by the Controller office for addressing grievances regarding online exams.

The Nodal centre will be created where all kinds of facilities related to online conduct/post conduct activities will be provided.

Teacher’s Role in drive the Students from Darkness of Ignorance to the Light of Knowledge

September 5, 2020/in Chandigarh, Crime, Entertainment, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, History, Mohali, Panchkula, Politics, Punjab, Sirsa, Sports, States, Tricity/by News 7 World

Chandigarh September 5, 2020

Today on 5th September 2020 at the occasion of Teacher’s Day, Department of Guru Nanak Sikh Studies organised a programme Role of Guru & NEP 2020’ at Google Meet. Research Scholars, students of the Department and a few alumni remained associated with the programme and they explained India’s Guru-Shishya Tradition and significant role of Teacher in students life and also its relevance in context of NEP 2020.

Prof. Jaspal Kaur Kaang, Academic Incharge of Dept. welcomed alumni Dr. Kamaljit Kaur from SD College Hoshiarpur, Dr. Amardip Kaur from MCM DAV College Chandigarh, Dr. Rajpreet Kaur from A.S. College Khanna and Dr. Puneet Kaur from Khalsa College Mohali. All alumni shared their research experiences and old memories spent in the Dept. of Guru Nanak Sikh Studies. Prof. Jaspal Kaur Kaang remembered the senior Professors and Chairpersons who contributed a lot in making the high esteem of the Department and Who also played an important role to take the legacy of the Department ahead. Dr. Kaang expressed her respect and pride in remembering Prof. Gurubachan Singh Talib founder of the department, Prof. H. S. Shan, Prof. Darshan Singh and Prof. Santosh Sharma and other officiating chairmen of the department from time to time. She paid special homage to Prof. Darshan Singh and Prof. Shankar Ji Jha in her address. She thanked all alumni, Research Students and non-teaching staff who associated with the function for a long hour.

T. T. Water Supply Shut Down on 18th June

First Cut Off in Economics goes to 99.14%

September 4, 2020/in Chandigarh, Crime, Entertainment, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, History, Mohali, Panchkula, Politics, Punjab, Sirsa, Sports, States, Tricity/by News 7 World

The Department of Economics, Panjab University had initiated admission
process for B.A (Hons.) in Economics program under Choice Based Credit
system for the session 2020-21,informed Prof. S.P. Padhi,
Chairperson . In the first list, the cut off point for
admission to Open Category was a record high to the tune of 99.14 percent.

Phytochemicals in Plant Extracts Potential Fighters for Corona Infection

September 4, 2020/in Chandigarh, Crime, Entertainment, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, History, Mohali, Panchkula, Politics, Punjab, Sirsa, Sports, States, Tricity/by News 7 World

Across the globe scientists trying to beat Coronavirus. At present, there is no approved drug or vaccine available to treat this disease. Still, people are trying various pre-existing medicines that are known to have antiviral effects. Panjab University, Chandigarh contributed in fights against Covid-19. Dr. Ashok Kumar, Chairperson from Centre of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, Panjab University studied the binding potential of approximately 50 phytochemicals present in multiple natural plant extracts that are capable of inhibiting virus replication. Phytochemicals are compounds that are produced by plants. They are found in fruits, vegetables, grains, beans, and other parts of plants. Some of these phytochemicals are believed to protect us from pathogenic attacks. Herbal extracts are full of phytochemicals. This Research published in Journal Phytomedicine having title “Identification of phytochemicals as potential therapeutic agents that binds to Nsp15 protein target of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that is capable of inhibiting virus replication”. This Reputed international Journal has an impact factor of 4.26. Dr. Ashok Kumar did this research in collaboration with Dr. Suresh Kumar from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi.

WEBINAR ON NEW EDUCATION POLICY: A ROADMAP FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION

September 4, 2020/in Chandigarh, Crime, Entertainment, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, History, Mohali, National, Panchkula, Politics, Punjab, Sirsa, Sports, States, Tricity/by News 7 World

A Webinar on New Education Policy: A roadmap for Engineering Education was organized by UIET, Panjab University, Chandigarh ,today. The event commenced with an introductory message by Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor who has been associated with NEP since the beginning and also gave inputs in the framing of NEP. PU VC also gave some optimistic insight into the fact that although pandemic is a curse, it has certainly given the opportunity of development to domains like engineering and medicine.

Subsequently Prof. Dheeraj Sanghi,Director PEC spoke about the aspects of New Education Policy related to higher education. He cited the chapters from New Education Policy that are related to higher education. He talked about the aspect of multidisciplinary education. In the curriculum, there should be interdisciplinary courses. There should be more flexibility in the courses chosen by the students i.e. more elective courses should be offered to the students.

Prof.Sanghi pointed out that it is very natural that the minds of students, as well as faculties, will resist these changes that this policy demands but we need to overcome this resistance. The NEP caters to the major problem that the college students face about not knowing exactly what they want to study in college or what are their interests. The provision of Dual Major will be provided i.e. one person having computer science engineering shall be allowed to opt for psychology also. It was also discussed as to how important it is to make a robust lateral entry system if we want to implement the NEP in a good way.

Prof.Sanghi also pointed to the fact that the policy gives the flexibility to the universities to implement the changes recommended at a time they find appropriate i.e. either from this batch or from the next session. He also talked about Academic Bank of Credit (ABC) which will be established to digitally store the academic credits earned from various recognised higher educational institutes so that the credits earned in the previous years can be awarded after entering into the programme again. With this ABC, the fear of wastage of years is avoided.

Continuous evaluation will be there rather than having one major exam at the end of the semester which has almost 70 % of credit or marks. He also added that tenure track recruitment should be there for faculties in which the teaching ability of the teacher will be evaluated after every 5-6 years. He then talked about the use of technology through online and digital courses. He talked about a big caveat of NEP which states that the quality of the online courses should be as good as the best on-campus programme of the higher educational institution. He said that such a scenario is not possible in the present situation and can only be made possible after approximately 10 years from now. More than 40% of courses shall be offered online to reduce the teaching load that will also provide an ample amount of time to the faculty for research work. He also discussed Faculty development programmes that should be conducted more frequently. Employability will automatically improve if a good batch of students graduate as industry will be interested to recruit them.

PU offers Grant of 5% Fee Waiver to Students

September 4, 2020/in Chandigarh, Crime, Entertainment, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, History, Mohali, National, Panchkula, Politics, Punjab, Sirsa, Sports, States, Tricity/by News 7 World

Panjab University Chandigarh, Vice Chancellor Prof Raj Kumar, in anticipation of approval of the Syndicate, has approved the 5% fee exemption across all courses to all the students of Panjab University Chandigarh and its Regional Centres for the current Semester, keeping in view the difficulties faced due to Covid 19 pandemic.

In order to facilitate the payment of fee , all students are allowed to deposit the course fee in 4 equal installments instead of two installments. The students who have paid full fee, will be adjusted in their next installment.

Also, 100% fee concession has been granted to physically challenged students whereas, EWS concession will be extended to the students of traditional courses also as a special measure.

Chandigarh September 2, 2020

The concessions offered are over and above the different kinds of concession/ scholarships/schemes(involving an amount of Rs 5 Crore) which is already being offered by the University.

PU CPC organises Distribution of Scholarships by Sarbat Da Bhala Charitable Trust

September 2, 2020/in Chandigarh, Crime, Entertainment, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, History, Mohali, National, Panchkula, Politics, Punjab, Sirsa, Sports, States, Tricity/by News 7 World

Central Placement Cell(CPC), Panjab University, Chandigarh organised a function to distribute scholarships of Rs. 299,300/- to 34 students by the “Sarbat Da Bhala charitable trust.

Sarbat da Bhala is a charitable trust was started by Sh. 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 and these scholarships are being distributed every year since 2016. Dr. Amandeep Singh Marwaha enlightened about the various activities of the trust and about the event to the beneficiary students and participants.

IGNOU extends Admission up to 15th September, 2020

Prof Meena Sharma, Director Central Placement Cell, welcomed all the members and 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 economyand thanked Dr S P Singh Oberoi for his philanthropic endeavours. Vice Chancellor, Prof Raj Kumar, expressed gratitude towards trust and highlighted the contribution of these philanthropists in the development of great education institutions like Nalanda and Takshila in the past too. He also told how these scholarships help collaterally in connecting various people involved in the process and asked Central Placement Cell to expand its scope and connect to more people.

Mrs. Inderjit Kaur, Director of the trust wished good luck to all the students and assured help to students while explaining the mission of the trust.

Prof Ganga Ram Chaudhary, gave formal vote of thanks.

PU DLIS organised Webinars on NEP 2020

August 31, 2020/in Chandigarh, Crime, Entertainment, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, History, Mohali, National, Panchkula, Politics, Punjab, Sirsa, Sports, States, Tricity/by News 7 World

Chandigarh August 31, 2020

The Department of Library and Information Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh organised two webinars on National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 on 29th and 31st August 2020. Dr D. V. Singh, former University librarian, University of Delhi, Delhi and Dr. Dinesh Gupta, Professor, DLIS, Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, were the resource persons.

Dr. D.V. Singh talked about the history, need and importance of NEP. He highlighted the significant features of NEP, like education in mother tongue; skill based education and vocationalization of education. He also emphasised the requirement of infrastructure for implementation of NEP.

Dr. Gupta highlighted the key principles of NEP 2020. He also elaborated the technology application in education for implementation of NEP. He advocated the use of Open Education Resources (OERs) for teaching and learning. In the end of his talk,he discussed some challenges in implementation of NEP 2020.

Dr. Preeti Mahajan, Chairperson of the department moderated both the webinars which were attended by more than 100 participants.

PUAA organizes webinar on Partition

August 31, 2020/in Chandigarh, Crime, Entertainment, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, History, Mohali, National, Panchkula, Politics, Punjab, Sirsa, Sports, States, Tricity/by News 7 World

Chandigarh August 31, 2020

Under the stewardship of Prof. Kamlesh Mohan and Prof. Deepti Gupta, Dean , Alumni Relations, an online webinar titled ‘THE MOTTLED DAWN’ signifying the trauma of Partition: 15 August 1947 and the zeal and courage of those whose overcame it was organized by Panjab University Alumni Association on August 30th, 2020 .

The event began with Prof. Mohan elucidating on the shared pain of the two major communities of Punjab who were at once victims and aggressors, survivors and perpetrators on the dark night of August 1947.

Ms. Kamla Bhasin delivered a talk on ‘Women & the Healing Process’ discussing the precarious predicament of the female sex in this communal conflict.

A poignant Nazm was read by Ravitej, an Urdu scholar followed by a recorded interview of Prof. Gulzar Singh Sandhu.

Rajinder Singh Bedi’s story ‘Lajwanti’, a tale of woe and suffering in the wake of the Partition was read by Mr. Shams Tabrezi.

This was followed by a short poem rendition by Ustad Chiraag Din Daaman, sourced from Youtube. The event concluding with Prof. Kamlesh Mohan reminiscing about that muggy monsoon day 74 years ago which was both a moment of victory and defeat for the people of Punjab.

Prof. Deepti delivered the Vote of thanks and the webinar ended with interaction amongst the participants of the nostalgic past which one remembers both in fondness and anguish.

“INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTEGRATED INTERDISCIPLINARY INNOVATIONS IN ENGINEERING (ICIIIE 2020)”

August 30, 2020/in Chandigarh, Crime, Entertainment, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, History, Mohali, Panchkula, Politics, Punjab, Sirsa, Sports, States, Tricity/by News 7 World

Chandigarh:

University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET), Panjab University inaugurated TEQIP-III sponsored three days online international conference entitled “INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTEGRATED INTERDISCIPLINARY INNOVATIONS IN ENGINEERING” on 28^th August 2020.

The conference scheduled from 28^th to 30^th August 2020 is being organized under twining activity of TEQIP-III in collaboration with Govt. college of Engineering and Technology Jammu under the guidance and patronage of Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, Panjab University, Prof. Savita Gupta, Director UIET, Panjab University, Chandigarh and Dr. Sameru Sharma, Principal, Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu. The technical program is enriched with internationally reputed speakers scheduled to give ten plenary talks, twelve invited talks, eight short invited talks and 200 oral/poster presentations from participants from various institutes from India and abroad.