Panjab varsity to hold first alumni meet Saturday
By IANSThursday, February 17, 2011
CHANDIGARH - Panjab University (PU), one of the oldest universities in the country that is Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s alma mater, is organising its first university-level alumni meet Saturday.
Jammu and Kashmir Governor N.N. Vohra will deliver the inaugural address at the meet and several former students are expected to participate.
PUs Dean-Alumni Relations Bhupinder Singh Bhoop said around 225 alumni of 1970 batch and previous ones will be honoured on the occasion.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been a former student as well as a faculty member of the economics department in the PU in 1950s and ’60s. However, he is unlikely to participate in the event this time.
Various teaching departments of the university will also be holding events to mark the alumni meet.
Panjab University was established in 1882 at Lahore (now in Pakistan). It shifted to its present campus in Chandigarhs Sector 14 in late 1950s. It is now spread over an area of 550 acres in sectors 14 and 25 of Chandigarh.
The university has 75 teaching and research departments and 15 centres and chairs for teaching and research at the main campus located at Chandigarh.
PU has 188 affiliated colleges across Punjab and has three regional centres at Muktsar, Ludhiana and Hoshiarpur. It also has one regional rural centre in Punjab.
