UGC selects Ferozepur college for College of Excellence status

CHANDIGARH: Panjab University (PU) vice-chancellor Prof Arun Kumar Grover on Friday said that the University Grants Commission (UGC) has selected Dev Samaj College for Women, Ferozepur, for the College of Excellence status. He was addressing the PU Syndicate.
The College has been given a grant of Rs 2 crore to be spent over five years for specific purposes.DSCW is one of the only three colleges in the country that have been honoured with this status.
Prof Grover informed that Governor of Haryana has nominated Professor SK Tomar, Deptt. of Mathematics, Panjab University, as his nominee on the Executive Council of Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar (Haryana) for a term of two years.
Prof Grover informed the Syndicate that he met MHRD Minister Prakash Javadekar along with Satya Pal Jain, Fellow, PU at his residence on August 18, 2016. “I renewed the invitation to him to visit P.U. Campus during Teacher’s Day week and submitted to him an update on the financial concern of the University. I later also met Secretary, Higher Education, MHRD, in his office and gave him an update on my meeting with the Hon’ble Minister,” he added.
Prof Grover informed that a Pay Review Committee constituted by the University Grants Commission for revision of pay of academic staff of Universities and Colleges would visit Panjab University, Chandigarh, on 29th August 2016.