Panjab varsity offers to set up centre on epics

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 18

The Panjab University (PU) Vice-Chancellor, Prof Raj Kumar, has offered Punjab Government top set up a research centre on Hindu epics Ramayana, Mahabharat and Bhagavad Gita. The announcement was Punjab Chief Minister by Charanjit Singh Channi recently.

The Vice-Chancellor (VC) shared that keeping in mind the rich heritage of imparting quality education, the PU had a national character and enjoyed an international stature drawing both faculty and students from all over the country and different parts of the globe. “The PU has already done work in oriental languages. Th university has its own Vishveshvaranand Vishwa Bandhu Institute of Sanskrit, Indological Studies at Hoshiarpur, Department of Sanskrit, Dayanand Chair for Vedic Studies, Department of Guru Nanak Sikh Studies, Guru Ravi Dass Chair of Sant Sahitya Studies, Bhai Vir Singh Chair, Sheikh Baba Farid Chair and others on the campus,” the VC added.

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