PU set to receive ‘potential for excellence’ panel

All the departments had prepared a documentary of 5-7 minutes each along with the university presentation of around 45 minutes. It is said that a detailed work has been done on the university presentation to be given by the Vice-Chancellor,Prof R C Sobti. It would include major achievements of university departments,alumni occupying major positions,infrastructure and academic staff along with other details.

A total of ten universities have been shortlisted across the country from which five would be awarded the potential for excellence grant. From the region apart from PU,Punjabi University,Patiala and Guru Nanak Dev University,Amritsar are major contenders.

The university will present its plan or proposal in the form of presentation before the monitoring committee. The grant of Rs 50 crore including the seed money for creating islands of excellence will be sanctioned on the basis of merit and competence of the plan to provide superior education in line with the new developments and challenges,both of the present and the future.

As per the UGC guidelines,the grant of Rs 50 crore would be sanctioned with the aim to strengthen the academic and physical infrastructure for achieving excellence in teaching,research and outreach programmes,to enhance the quality of the learning process and teaching at the undergraduate and postgraduate level with the help of a flexible credit-based modular system,and a whole range of innovations currently accepted across the world,to promote networking with other Centres/departments and laboratories in the country and to achieve excellence in education,training and research to face the challenge of globalization.