PANJAB UNIVERSITY, CHANDIGARH Minutes of meeting of the SENATE held on Sunday, 21 st January 2018 at 11.00 a.m. in the Senate Hall, Panjab University, Chandigarh. PRESENT: 1. Professor Arun Kumar Grover … (in the chair) Vice Chancellor 2. Dr. Ajay Ranga 3. Dr. Amit Joshi 4. Shri Ashok Goyal 5. Dr. Ameer Sultana 6. Dr. Amod Gupta 7. Dr. Akhtar Mahmood 8. Professor Anita Kaushal 9. Professor B.S. Ghuman 10. Dr. Baljinder Singh 11. Dr. B.C. Josan 12. Professor Chaman Lal 13. Dr. Dayal Partap Singh Randhawa 14. Dr. Dalip Kumar 15. Shri Deepak Kaushik 16. Dr. Emanual Nahar 17. Dr. Gurdip Kumar Sharma 18. Dr. Gurmeet Singh 19. Dr. Gurjot Singh Malhi 20. Dr. Gurmit Singh 21. Dr. Hardiljit Singh Gosal 22. Shri H.S. Dua 23. Dr. Harjodh Singh 24. Dr. I.S. Sandhu 25. Dr. Inderjit Kaur 26. Dr. Inderpal Singh Sidhu 27. Professor J.K. Goswamy 28. Dr. Jagdish Chander 29. Shri Jarnail Singh 30. Shri Jagdeep Kumar 31. Dr. K.K. Sharma 32. Dr. Keshav Malhotra 33. Professor Manoj K. Sharma 34. Dr. N.R. Sharma 35. Dr. Neeru Malik 36. Professor Navdeep Goyal 37. Professor Meenakshi Malhotra 38. Dr. Mukesh K. Arora 39. Dr. Nisha Bhargava 40. Dr. Narinder Singh Sidhu 41. Shri Naresh Gaur 42. Dr. Parveen Goyal 43. Shri Prabhjit Singh 44. Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal 45. Professor Pam Rajput 46. Professor Rajat Sandhir 47. Professor Ronki Ram 2 Senate Proceedings dated 21 st January/17 th February 2018 48. Dr. Rabinder Nath Sharma 49. Dr.(Mrs.) Rajesh Gill 50. Professor R.P. Bambah 51. Shri Raghbir Dyal 52. Dr. R.S. Jhanji 53. Dr. Raj Kumar Mahajan 54. Dr. S. S. Sangha 55. Dr. Subhash Sharma 56. Shri Sandeep Singh 57. Ms. Surinder Kaur 58. Shri Satya Pal Jain 59. Professor Shelly Walia 60. Dr. Satish Kumar Sharma 61. Dr. Shaminder Singh Sandhu 62. Shri Sandeep Kumar 63. Dr. Vipul Kumar Narang 64. Col. G.S. Chadha (Retd.) … (Secretary) Registrar The following members could not attend the meeting: 1. Shri Amanpreet Singh 2. Dr. Amar Singh 3. Ms. Anu Chatrath 4. Mrs. Aruna Chaudhary, Education Minister, Punjab 5. Capt. Amarinder Singh, Chief Minister 6. Ambassador I.S. Chadha 7. Shri Bharat Bhushan Ashu 8. Professor Deepak Pental 9. Dr. D.V.S. Jain 10. Dr. Harsh Batra 11. Justice Harbans Lal 12. Shri Harjit Singh, D.H.E., U.T., Chandigarh 13. Smt. Kirron Kher 14. Shri Parimal Rai 15. Shri Parmod Kumar 16. Shri Punam Suri 17. Shri Rashpal Malhotra 18. Dr. Raj Kumar Chabbewal 19. Shri Rakesh Kumar Popli, D.H.E., Punjab 20. Shri Sanjeev Bandlish 21. Shri Sanjay Tandon 22. Dr. S.K. Sharma 23. Dr. Sarabjit Kaur 24. Justice Shiavax Jal Vazifdar 25. Dr. Suresh Chandra Sharma 26. Dr. Tarlochan Singh 27. Shri Varinder Singh 28. Shri V.K. Sibal The Vice Chancellor said, “With a deep sense of sorrow, I may inform the members about the sad demise of: i) Prof. R.S. Loyal, Department of Geology, PU, on 10 th January, 2018, 3 Senate Proceedings dated 21 st January/17 th February 2018 ii) Prof. Savita Dhir, formerly of the English Department at University School of Open Learning, on 6 th January 2018, iii) Professor (Dr.) Amrit Tewari, wife of late Prof. V.N. Tewari, former Head of Department of Punjabi at Panjab University, Chandigarh, and mother of Shri Manish Tewari, she paased away on 14 th January, 2018. She was member of Senate of PU from 1984-1996. She was also member of Syndicate and Dean, Faculty of Medical Sciences at P.U. and she also occupied many pivotal positions. iv) Prof. K.K. Bhutani, former Director, NIPER, SAS Nagar (Mohali), PU Alumnus and founder member of CRIKC, on 6 th January, 2018, v) Smt. Shimla Devi, sister of Sh. Pawan Kumar Bansal, Fellow, PU, on 16 th January, 2018, vi) Shri Amolakh Josan, elder brother of Dr. B.C. Josan, Fellow, PU and Principal, DAV College, Sector-10, on 9 th January, 2018 vii) Shri Gurdip Singh, Former President PUSA and Fellow, on 17 th December 2017 viii) Shri Arun Gupta, brother of Shri Anupam Gupta Ji (Senior Counsel), on 21 st January 2018 The Senate expressed its sorrow and grief over the passing away of Prof. R.S. Loyal, Prof. Savita Dhir, Professor (Dr.) Amrit Tewari, Prof. K.K. Bhutani, Smt. Shimla Devi , Shri Amolakh Josan, Shri Gurdip Singh and Shri Arun Gupta and observed two minutes silence, all standing, to pay homage to the departed soul. RESOLVED: That a copy of the above Resolution be sent to the members of the bereaved families. I. The Vice Chancellor said, “I feel immense pleasure in informing the Hon'ble members of the Senate that – i) Prof. Dhirendra Pal Singh, former Director, National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), has assumed the office of Chairperson of University Grants Commission, for a period five years from 1 st January 2018. ii) Prof. V.K. Rattan of Dr. S.S. Bhatnagar University Inst. of Chemical Engg. and Technology, has joined as Vice Chancellor of GNA University, Phagwara (Punjab) on 19 th January, 2018 for a term of three years. iii) Mr. Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of India, will receive LL.D. (Honoris Causa) on 4 th March 2018 during the 67 th Annual Convocation of Panjab University. Mr. Justice Khehar could not attend the 66 th Annual Convocation of PU last year. 4 Senate Proceedings dated 21 st January/17 th February 2018 iv) Prof. Sir. Tejinder Singh Virdee, scheduled to receive ‘D.Sc. ( Honoris Causa )’ on March 4, 2018 during the 67 th Annual Convocation of PU, shall deliver Second Prof. H. S. Hans Memorial Lecture on March 5, 2018 in the Department of Physics. v) Prof. Man Mohan Sharma, FRS, scheduled to receive ‘D.Sc. ( Honoris Causa ) on March 4, 2018, shall deliver an Annual Expository Lecture on 3rd March, 2018 to commemorate Birth Anniversary of Dr Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar every year this lecture is held in the University. vi) Prof. R. C. Sobti, Vice Chancellor, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow and former Vice Chancellor, Panjab University, Chandigarh, has been honoured with INSA Senior Scientist position from January 2018. The position carries an honorarium of Rs.30,000/- p.m.(Thirty Thousand per month) and contingency grant of Rs. 1,00,000/- per annum. He returns to PU Campus after he completes his term as Vice Chancellor at Lucknow. vii) Prof. Rumina Sethi, Department of English and Cultural Studies, has been nominated as a member of General Council of the Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters), New Delhi, for a period five years w.e.f. January 2018. viii) Prof. S.K. Sharma, Fellow and Professor Emeritus, PU, has been nominated as member of the International Adhoc Group on Carbondioxide utilization, constituted by the International Standards Organization (ISO). This group comprises of representatives of ten countries, namely: USA, France, Germany, Japan, China, The Netherlands, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Korea and India. ix) Shri Devesh Maudgil has been elected as a Mayor of Chandigarh, he is an alumunus of Panjab University and he has been a Joint Secretary of PUCSC in 1999 and he is also a member of Board of Studies in Law x) Prof. Seema Kapoor, Enactus Faculty Advisor and Coordinator, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in the Dr S. S. Bhatnagar Univ. Inst. of Chemical Engg. & Technology has bagged Best Faculty Award 2016-2017 from ENACTUS India (Supported by Mahindra) and a cash prize of Rs. 25000/- as appreciation for dedication and hardwork. xi) Dr. Vanita Kakkar, Assistant Professor in University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, PU, has received the Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG) amounting to Rs. 50 lakhs by the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) for her work on Pediatric Dermatitis. xii) Dr. Rohit Kumar Sharma, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, has been nominated as a member of the Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS) under the aegis of INSA, for five years w.e.f. January 2018. He is the first young scientist to be inducted in INYAS from PU. He had also received a research grant of Rs. 63 lakhs from Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB) for a project in collaboration with CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh. 5 Senate Proceedings dated 21 st January/17 th February 2018 xiii) Dr. S. K. Upadhyay, Department of Botany, has been invited by the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences to join Academy (NAAS) as Associate from 1 st January, 2018. xiv) As per a recent communication received from office of Principal Scientific Advisor to Government of India, New Delhi, 10 Clusters have been asked to be created all across India for strengthening education and research base of the Universities. One such Cluster was proposed to comprise 4 Universities (Panjab University, Chandigarh, Punjabi University, Patiala, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra and Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar) and 6 National Research Laboratories in the region (CSIR-IMTECH, CSIR-CSIO, NABI, CIAB, INST and SCL). These National laboratories belong to the CSIR Network to the department of Space, to the department of Science & Technology, DBT and supported by various ministeries in Delhi. The Chairman of this Cluster is Vice Chancellor, PU and Co-Chairman is Executive Director, NABI, Mohali. The inaugural meeting of this Cluster was convened on January 5, 2018. The other institutions of Chandigarh Region Innovation and Knowledge Cluster would also synergise their activities with the new Cluster. The Minutes of the first meeting have been submitted to the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi. ‘Centre for Policy Research’ devoted to promote Academy-Industry collaborations which was created at Panjab University Campus in 2014, has been entrusted the nodal role for the new Cluster.