When was punjabi university established

Originally it was conceived as a unitary multi-faculty teaching and research university, primarily meant for the development and enrichment of Punjabi language and culture, but alive to the social and education requirements of the state. The university campus is spread over an area of acres 1.

The institution has 65 teaching and research departments, covering disciplines in Humanities, Science , Fine Arts , Computer Science and Business Management. The university has undertaken the responsibility of maintaining the estate of Norah Richards at Andretta, Himachal Pradesh. Arrangements have been made for faculty members and students who wish to carry out study and research in the fields of theatre and television.

Research on comparative religions is carried out at this center. Punjabi University was established on 30 April under the Punjabi University Act as a residential and teaching university, not as an affiliating University.

It started functioning from temporary accommodation in Barandari Palace building. Initially its jurisdictional area was fixed as the mile 16 km radius. The college was housed in Dhyan Singh Haveli. There was a systematic campaign to upgrade the college to university for 13 long years before the University of the Punjab came about on October 14, In between, the Oriental College, Lahore, was set up in Gurmukhi was recognised by Oriental College as early as in and Punjabi Gurmukhi department was opened in Oriental College in The Hindi department has been functioning in the college since He was succeeded by Sir Baden Henry Powell.

Punjab University, Lahore, as it was popularly known, catered the vast area in pre-Partition India. This, however, is not true. Both spellings are in use in pre-Partition Punjab University records. It was agreed at the time of Partition that examinations will be conducted by the University of the Punjab, Lahore, on both sides. He was murdered by his personal assistant in his office in the university! He too was similarly murdered in his office. The administrative offices of the university were set up in a camp in Shimla.

The first convocation of the university was held on March 5, , in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel. Since , economist Dr. Both universities have expanded a lot since their inception. Its original location Government College, Lahore, has now turned into a full-fledged research-oriented university named as Government College University, Lahore.

PU administrative offices shifted to cantonment in Solan after The departments were also located in various places — Department of Chemical Engineering was located in Delhi Polytechnic, Delhi; Botany, Zoology and Chemistry departments started in Khalsa College Amritsar, so was Punjabi department agriculture college was also set up at Amritsar. Government College, Hoshiarpur, took care of many PG departments like economics, English, zoology, before all departments finally shifted to the present campus of Panjab University at Chandigarh by Despite scoring almost equal to central universities like JNU, Hyderabad, Delhi University in academic world in rankings, Panjab University at Chandigarh is being given a step-motherly treatment by both the state and central governments.

The Punjab Government has literally stopped contributing its 40 per cent budgetary share to the university since long and even the reduced meagre 8 per cent is not being paid by it. During the freedom struggle, Punjab University Lahore, played a brilliant role.

From the calendar of , one reads the Senate proceedings relating to October 8, , an incident in DAV College, Lahore, when the police entered the campus and beat up a professor and some students in his classroom. The context was: on October 7, the Lahore Conspiracy case tribunal had announced its verdict — committing Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru to gallows.

Protests by students and teachers in Lahore was natural and the police tried to suppress these by entering the classrooms on October 8.

Sadly Panjab University, Chandigarh, has not even put any plaques in the university in memory of Prof.

M G Singh, Prof. The Lahore website of the university proudly claims Pakistani scientist Abdus Salam and Indian scientist Hargobind Khurana as its alumni Nobel laureates of and with photographs and brief biographies. The Chandigarh website does not even mention Hargobind Khurana.

Nobel Laureates. Former Vice Chancellors. Vision, Mission Statement and Goals. Guide Map New Campus. Guide Map Old Campus. The University of the Punjab was formally established with the convening of the first meeting of its Senate on October 14, at Simla. It was the fourth University to be established by the British colonial authorities on the Indian Subcontinent. The first three universities were established by the British rulers at their initial strongholds of Bombay, Madras and Calcutta.

The University of the Punjab came into existence as a result of a long drawn struggle of the people of Punjab after the war of independence in