Bounty plentiful for PEC as alumni pitch in with Rs21.1 cr

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, February 12

As much as Rs21.1 crore was donated by various alumni of the PEC University of Technology for the campus infrastructure and for the economically weaker sections yesterday. The Global Annual Alumni Meet of the PEC University of Technology organised by the Punjab Engineering College Old Students’ Association (PECOSA), in collaboration with the office of the Dean Alumni, Corporate and International Relations, announced the donations.

The chief guest on the occasion, Monte Ahuja, chairman and CEO, MURA Holdings, USA, was an alumnus of the 1967 batch.

As a token of gratitude to his alma mater, he proposed a grant of Rs6.7 crore to PEC yesterday.

Another alumnus, Manmohan Kalsi of the 1967 batch, also proposed a grant of Rs1.67 crore for the university.

Ahuja narrated the challenges met by him during his life’s journey in the USA and inspired the alumni to remain connected to their roots.

This year, the batches of 1957, 1967,1982 and 1992 were honoured. The alumni of 1988 and 1990 batch donated Rs12.76 crore to the institute. The batch of 1988, led by Gurvin Singh and Ranesh Bajaj, was honoured for setting up the Mechatronics laboratory at a cost of Rs14.05 lakh in the institute. The 1990 batch of electrical engineering was honoured for providing testing equipment for numerical relays of Rs5 lakh in the T&D lab of the institute. The alumni body provided an aid of Rs50,000 to a third-year student, who was facing scarcity of funds, for undertaking his internship in Italy.

KK Vohra, president, PECOSA, explained that the theme of the alumni meet was purposefully chosen as “building bridges across alumni” as they needed to connect and exchange views in a better way if they wanted to reassert themselves as a strong and vibrant alumni body.

Director, Dr Manoj K Arora, addressed 1,000 delegates who came from various parts of the country and the US.