Senate Meeting : VICE CHANCELLOR’S STATEMENT

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Chandigarh March 27, 2022

  •         On behalf of this august house, I take pleasure in welcoming Bhagwant Singh Mann, Chief Minister, Punjab and Sh. Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer, Minister for Higher Education, Government of Punjab as Ex-Officio members of this house. We are confident of being blessed from their profound knowledge and  rich experience.

·        Prof. S.K. Tomar, Fellow has been appointed as the Vice Chancellor of JC Bose University of Science and  Technology, YMCA, Faridabad.

·        As per the authorization given to me in the Senate meeting held on 8.1.2022, Prof. Renu Vig has been appointed as Dean of University Instruction and Prof. Sudhir Kumar as  Dean Research.

·        Mr. Deepak Singh, 26, has bagged the highest package of Rs. 53 lakh per annum in the placement drive conducted by Panjab University’s University Business School (UBS) for the current session.

·        Panjab University added itself to the medal tally with a Gold Medal in the All India Inter-University Rowing Championships.  The championship was organized by Panjab University at Sukhna Lake.

·        The Computer Science and Engineering Department of UIET, Panjab University, has been selected for the prestigious grant under the fund for improvement of S&T infrastructure in Universities and higher educational institutions (FIST) Level-I programme by DST, Govt. of India.   CSE has been granted Rs. 94 lakh for a period of five years to set up a data centre unit for the establishment and execution of centre of excellence for “Designing and Development of AI driven predictive systems for Smart City operations especially smart healthcare and smart transportation,” for students, faculty and researchers.