Panjab University to be converted into a resort?
In an unprecedented turn of events, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has suggested Panjab University to be converted into a resort.
Hearing a petition against the UGC for not releasing Rs 30 crore aid to Panjab University, the Punjab and Haryana High Court Bench of Justice SS Saron and Justice Darshan Singh observed that since PU doesn’t come under the Centre, “Let it be closed as centre of learning.”
“For the Centre, Punjab, UT (Chandigarh) are not part of it. Be it airport (Chandigarh airport issue), colleges (affiliation-related issues) or now PU, they have different yardsticks for them and different for others,” the HC bench observed.
“Let it be closed as centre of learning… The students could be shifted to Punjabi University (Patiala) and GNDU (Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar)… UGC may convert it into a resort,” the bench said.
An ‘unprecedented’ aid crunch is being faced by Panjab University. Furthermore, the teachers also received the salaries of February, 2017 in the first week of March, 2017. According to reports, for a long time now, Panjab University has been functioning on a deficit budget; this means that the expenditure of the University is more than its revenue. Reportedly, before 2014, the financial crunch faced by PU was eased by UGC by granting an ad hoc annual aid from the budget plan – this was apart from the University’s annually approved funding of about Rs 170 crore.
V-C AK Grover informed the court that except Panjab University, all the other institutes were granted 15% extra over their 2015-16 aids. The HC rebuked the UGC for not following the order that was directed on January 19, 2017. Answering this, the UGC said that it had approached the Supreme Court against the same.
According to the latest details given to the court, the current year’s total salary expenditure of the university is estimated to be approx. Rs 306 crore. Out of this, Rs 264 crore has been disbursed till February 2017.
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