PG courses at PU Muktsar centre from current session

While the regional centre will be completed in a period of three years, it will start functioning from the current session from an old school complex, according to the official spokesman of the university.

The Punjab government has been asked to identify about 100 acres of land with a provision for contiguous land for hostel and residential facilities. The construction of the campus is estimated to cost Rs 25 crore.

The Punjab government will provide Rs 1.11 crore during the current year. Each teaching department will have a reader and two lecturers and the procedure for recruitment will be completed before the beginning of the session, university officials added. Faculty from PU campus will also provide support to the Law course.

Earlier, a committee under the chairmanship of Prof G.S. Gosal, formerly of PU, had been constituted to prepare a feasibility report about having a regional centre at Muktsar. The report was submitted in February 1998.

Prof Gosal had recommended that the course should be structured with a focus on rural development, rural banking, rural industry and vocational agriculture with an emphasis on bee-keeping, mushroom farming, poultry and dairy farming.

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