Chandigarh April 13, 2020
Vice President of India , Shri Vankiah Naidu interacted with the Vice-Chancellors of five Universities through Video-Conferencing today.
Secretary DoPT and Director IIPA, VCs of Panjab University Chandigarh, Pondicherry University, Makhanlal Chaturvedi University Bhopal, Delhi University, Hyderabad University were present.
At the outset, Mr Subha Rao, Secretary to Vice President of India, while initiating discussion invited Vice President of India for his inaugural remarks. VP of India welcomed the VCs and explained the ongoing crisis and what the Universities should do in respect of teaching, research and student-related activities. He asked the Vice Chancellors present in the video conference to share the strategies adopted by different Universities in the light of ongoing pandemic CORONOVIRUS.
Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University, Prof Raj Kumar mentioned about the action taken by the University to minimise disruption in the teaching, examination & research activities. He informed that our faculty is actively engaged in online teaching using various technologies like Zoom Cloud, Skype, Google classrooms etc. He also
highlighted that PU has submitted research proposal against the SARS-CoV-2 Corona virus in collaboration with Professor Nikolai Petrovsky, South Australian Researcher, which was appreciated by Mr Vice-President . Prof Raj Kumar also mentioned about the constitution of Advisory and Task force for effectively handling challenges confronted by the University in the present-day crisis and also assured that University is ready to conduct examination after the lockdown and strategies have been prepared to declare result at the earliest.
Vice President of India appreciated the efforts of academic leaders and stressed upon the need to encourage students to learn from the crisis and use the available time with parents and grandparents, do physical exercises, learn more than one language and love nature and Indian culture for better future.
