Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, January 19
Member of Parliament Kirron Kher, who is also an alumna of Panjab University (PU), should take up the issue of increasing the grant to the university with the Union Government, the Punjab Government and the Chandigarh Administration to resolve its financial crisis.
Vice-Chancellor Prof Arun Kumar Grover said this while addressing an event of the Panjab University Teachers Association (PUTA) to felicitate young faculty achievers.
MP Kirron Kher was the chief guest on the occasion.
Recalling Kher’s academic days on the campus, Prof Grover said the university was looking forward for support from the MP to resolve the issue of grant with the Centre where she can become the voice of the campus.
Referring to about 300 to 400 vacant posts in the university, the VC said they wanted to fill these posts but need funds from the Center for the purpose.
The VC said he was not in favour of making the PU a central university even though he was aware that his view would be criticised by many of his faculty members. But the fact was that the PU was an autonomous body in which neither the Centre nor the state intervened.
As many as 90 young faculty members of the university were felicitated for their achievements.
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