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40-443: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy was instituted in the year 1956–1957. It is given to the university for "top performance in the inter-university tournaments" over the period of the last one year. Arjuna Award was instituted in the year 1961. It is given to sportspersons for "consistent outstanding performance" over the period of last four years. The award comprises "a bronze statuette of Arjuna , certificate, ceremonial dress, and

80-608: A Working Women Hostel. A Sports Hostel has been built for visiting sports teams. Two more hostels are under construction, one each for boys and girls. There is one International hostel also. All the NRI/Foreign national girls students are accommodated there. The university has playgrounds, a gymnasium and a swimming pool for its sports activities. The Directorate of Sports organises about 70 Inter-College and four to five Inter-University Competitions every year. The Directorate of Sports participates in 62 games both for men and women in

120-497: A cash prize of ₹ 15 lakh (US$ 18,000)". The second- and third-place universities receive cash prizes of ₹ 7.5 lakh (US$ 9,000) and ₹ 4.5 lakh (US$ 5,400) respectively. The trophy, initiated in 1956–1957, has been awarded a total of 64 times as of 2020. The objective of the trophy is to promote competitive sports, excellence in sports, and integrating sports and physical fitness amongst the Indian colleges and universities. The trophy

160-458: A cash prize of ₹ 15 lakh (US$ 18,000)." Dronacharya Award instituted in the year 1985, it is given to coaches for "producing medal winners at prestigious international events". The award comprises "a bronze statuette of Dronacharya, a certificate, ceremonial dress, and a cash prize of ₹ 15 lakh (US$ 18,000)". Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna was instituted in the year 1991–1992. It is given to sportspersons for "most outstanding performance by

200-445: A sportsperson" over the period of last four years. The award comprises "a medallion , a certificate, and a cash prize of ₹ 25 lakh (US$ 30,000)". Dhyan Chand Award was instituted in the year 2002. It is given to individuals for "lifetime contribution to sports development". The award comprises "a Dhyan Chand statuette, a certificate, ceremonial dress, and a cash prize of ₹ 10 lakh (US$ 12,000)". Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar

240-428: Is accredited by NAAC at five star level, with the highest NAAC A++ accreditation grade. The university has 78 teaching and research departments and 10 centres/chairs for teaching and research at the main campus located at Chandigarh. It has 201 affiliated colleges spread over the eight districts of Punjab state and union-territory of Chandigarh, with Regional Centres at Muktsar , Ludhiana and Hoshiarpur . It

280-671: Is awarded annually with the other five National Sports Awards and national adventure award at the Presidential Palace presented by the President of India , usually on 29 August of a year. Six universities have won the trophy various times. Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar has won the trophy 24 times, most recently in the year 2023. Panjab University in Chandigarh has won the trophy 15 times, most recently in

320-614: Is considered a state university . It traces its origins to the University of the Punjab in Lahore , which was founded in 1882. After the partition of India , the university was established on 1 October 1947, and called East Punjab University. Initially housed primarily at a cantonment in Solan , it later relocated to a newly built campus in Chandigarh, and was renamed Panjab University. It

360-537: Is one of the well-ranked universities in India. The campus is residential, spread over 550 acres (220 ha) in sectors 14 and 25 of the city of Chandigarh. The main administrative and academic buildings are located in sector 14, beside a health centre, a sports complex, hostels and residential housing. The University of the Punjab was established on 14 October 1882 at Lahore (now in Punjab, Pakistan ). The fate of

400-586: Is the techno-cultural fest and Umang is the annual sports fest of UIET. Panjab University is active on social media websites such as Facebook , Twitter and Instagram . The office of the Panjab University Campus Students Council (PUCSC) is located in the student centre. The student centre is the hub of students' activities – academic, cultural, social and political – besides being the favourite eating and hanging out zone for students. The Students' Council consists of

440-481: The Government of India . The Gandhi Bhawan is a major landmark of the city of Chandigarh . Designed by the architect Pierre Jeanneret , a cousin of Le Corbusier , it is an auditorium hall that sits in the middle of a pond of water. It also houses a collection of books on Gandhi . The Student Centre, popularly known as StuC, is a major landmark of the city of Chandigarh and a hub for student activities. It

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480-598: The University of Florida , the University of Cincinnati , SRI International USA, and Lakehead University in Canada. The centre has helped the states of Haryana , Punjab and Himachal Pradesh , U.T. Chandigarh, J&K State, and the North-Eastern states in solving problems associated with energy planning and management and Environmental protection. The university has participated in the project called International Collaboration for Research for Elementary Particles and

520-546: The 61st annual session of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, which also included a joint US-India Conference on Energy. The university has two departments for teaching law. The  National Institutional Ranking Framework  (NIRF) has ranked Faculty of Law, Panjab University 15 in the National Law Rankings 2020. The department conducts a separate admission test, for both courses, on

560-512: The Inter-University Competitions and arranges training camps in these games under the supervision of expert coaches. The university has been awarded Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy sixteenth times, the latest being in the year 2021 and making a hat-trick twice. MAKA Trophy represents the highest award given for inter-university sports and university sportsperson performance in the international and national arena by

600-530: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) CERN , Geneva CMS Experiment with a Government of India grant of Rs. 24.9 million. "Cyanide" is the annual festival of DCET/UICET. The festival often hosts star performers, DJ nights and other events. Tatva is the student magazine of DCET/UICET. There is an annual debate competition called the Polemic. Aavishkar was the technical fest of UIET until 2013. Goonj

640-651: The Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award [Formerly known as Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award ] . The Arjuna Award has been awarded to 881 individuals and one group award to 20 mountaineers. Seventy-five sportspersons have been awarded the Dhyan Chand Award. One hundred and twenty-nine coaches have been awarded the Dronacharya Award, out of which 35 been awarded in the lifetime category. A total of six universities have been awarded

680-672: The Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy 64 times. Thirty-nine organizations and individuals have been awarded the Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar for sports promotion 47 times. Official Website Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy The Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy , abbreviated as MAKA Trophy , is a sports honour of the Republic of India . The award is named after Abul Kalam Azad commonly referred to as Maulana Azad, one of

720-705: The UGC as the "University with Potential for Excellence in Bio-Medical Sciences" with facilities for Stem Cell Research and Drug Development. The university is one of six centres in the country for super-computing facilities to serve the north-western region in the Technology Information Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), DST. The government of India has identified the university as a Special Centre. The university provides internet connections for more than 1800 terminals for

760-533: The academic-industry interface. The Energy Research Centre was established in 1983 at Panjab University to promote R&D and Extension activities in Renewable Energy. The Energy Research Centre is the only R&D centre in the country designated as a Nodal Agency for the implementation of the programmes of MNES. The centre has been designated as a regional test centre for testing solar thermal equipment by MNES. The Bureau of Indian Standard has approved

800-591: The campus. The centre runs a library, a seminar complex and a guest house for visiting scholars under its study-grants programme. Institute of Social Science Education and Research (commonly known as ISSER or PU-ISSER) is a liberal arts institution and a constituent department of the Panjab University. The institute offers a five-year integrated, honour-school Masters of Arts degree in the Social Sciences . The university has been recognised by

840-939: The centre for testing wood-burning stoves. The centre has provided consultancy to countries in the Asia-Pacific region such as the Maldives, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Kiribati and Tuvalu, in the area of renewable energy sources, energy management and environmental protection. The centre has helped the states of Haryana, Panjab and Himachal Pradesh in solving problems associated with energy planning, management and environmental protection. The centre has done work on solar thermal energy storage, solar detoxification, biomethanation of agricultural/industrial/forest wastes, biomass combustion and gasification, indoor air quality, energy and environmental conservation and management, and hydrodynamics of polymeric solutions. The Energy Research Centre has professional contacts with universities such as

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880-450: The departmental representatives and other office bearers i.e. president, vice-president, secretary and joint-secretary directly elected by the students from the various teaching departments on the campus. The Dean of Student Welfare is ex officio chairman of the council. The Students' Council organises youth festivals, both national and international, academic debates, literary and cultural events and educational tours, besides looking after

920-766: The faculties of Arts, Science, Languages, Law, Education, Design and Fine Arts, Business Management and Commerce, Engineering and Technology, Hotel Management and Tourism, Medical Sciences, and Pharmaceutical Sciences. There are also departments of Evening Studies and Distance Learning. Most departments have their own libraries. The Faculty of Languages also has courses in foreign languages. The Department of Chinese and Tibetan languages runs 7 courses. One in Buddhist Studies and three each in Tibetan and Chin. besides providing research guidance in Buddhist Studies. The Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) at Panjab University

960-635: The government in East Punjab was compelled to bring an ordinance to set up a new university on 27 September 1947. The new university was then established in Solan (Shimla) of the Indian Punjab as the "East Punjab University" on 1 October 1947. After 1947, the university had no campus of its own for nearly a decade. The administrative office was in Solan and the teaching departments functioned from Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Delhi, and Amritsar. The name

1000-774: The largest libraries in North India. Museum of Fine Arts is a part of the Department of Art History and Visual Arts, inaugurated in 1968. The Museum building, made in red sandstone , is one of the landmarks in the university campus and has been earmarked as a heritage building. It has a large collection of works of contemporary Indian art, including paintings, sculptures, graphics and drawings by artists such as Jamini Roy , M.F. Husain , Satish Gujral , J. Swaminathan , Ram Kumar , A. Ramachandran , K.G. Subramanyan , Vivan Sundaram , Bhupen Khakhar , Dhanraj Bhagat , Arpana Caur , Shiv Singh etc. The day-to-day functioning of

1040-722: The pattern of the Union Public Service Commission. Originally, the university had three regional centres, one each in Ludhiana , Rohtak and Shimla. Currently, the university has following regional centres in the state of Punjab: The university comprises 78 departments, 15 centres/chairs on the campus and six Constituent Colleges located at Sikhwala (Sri Muktsar Sahib), Balachaur (SBS Nagar), Nihalsingh Wala (Moga), Dharamkot (Moga), Mokham Khan Wala (Ferozepur) and Guru Harsahai (Ferozepur) and one rural regional centre. Three regional centres are grouped under

1080-565: The re-organisation of Punjab, the university became an Inter-State Body Corporate catering to the newly organised state of Punjab and the union-territory of Chandigarh. In April 2024, Panjab University in Chandigarh became one of the first universities in India to grant menstrual leave to female students, starting from the session 2024-25. The policy will allow leave of one day per one calendar month of teaching and maximum of four days leave per semester. The university's chequerboard layout

1120-549: The senior leaders of Indian national congress and first Minister of Education in independent India. It is awarded annually by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports . It is a rolling trophy awarded to the "overall top performing University in sports and promoting competitive sports in University" over the preceding year. As of 2020 , the award for the university securing first position comprises "a rolling MAKA trophy and

1160-539: The south-east, stretching into the adjacent Sector 25 which also houses the University Institute of Engineering and Technology , Dr. Harvansh Singh Judge Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital, UIAMS , and Institute of Biological Sciences. The campus in Sector 25 is also known as the south campus. There are eighteen hostels on the campus including eight hostels for men and eleven women hostels including

1200-548: The university after the partition of India in 1947, was deliberated at the Punjab Partition Committee, with representatives from East Punjab advocating for a division of the university. The senate of the university voted to split the university, and the matter reached the Partition Council at the centre, but a decision could not be made. With no university for the colleges in its territory,

1240-608: The university is headed by Vice Chancellor . The office of the Dean of University Instruction (DUI) is the academic head of Panjab University and its Regional Centres. Panjab University Internal Structure shown in Orgranogram. UICET is one of the regional centres of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers. 2008 was the Golden Jubilee year of the institute. As part of the celebrations, the institute hosted CHEMCON-2008,

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1280-455: The university, Prof. A C Joshi . It is located near the student centre. It was designed by Swiss architect Pierre Jeanneret . The foundation stone of the Library was laid in 1958 by Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan , the then vice-president of India, and it was formally inaugurated in 1963 by the then Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru . With a collection of 6,70,000 titles, it is one of

1320-476: The use of faculty members and students. All the buildings of the university including hostels are connected through ATM and Gigabit technology. The university has a DST supported Regional Sophisticated Instrumentation Centre along with a Central Instrumentation Laboratory (CIL) and a University Science Instrumentation Centre (USIC) to serve the scientific community on the campus and in the region. The Centre for Industry Institute Partnership Programme (CIIPP) promotes

1360-697: The year 2020, while Delhi University based in Delhi has won the trophy 14 times, most recently in the year 2000–2001. Other winners include Bombay University in Mumbai which won the inaugural trophy, Punjabi University in Patiala , and Kurukshetra University in Kurukshetra . Panjab University Panjab University ( PU ) is an Indian collegiate public state university located in Chandigarh . Funded through both State and Union governments , it

1400-623: Was devised by Swiss-French Architect Pierre Jeanneret. The main campus at Chandigarh is spread over 550 acres in Sectors 14 and 25, the teaching area is in the north-east, with the Central Library, Fine Arts Museum, and three-winged structure of the Gandhi Bhawan forming its core; the sports complex, the health centre, the dolphinarium, student centre and the shopping centre in the middle; 16 university hostels and residential area in

1440-611: Was established on May 1, 2003. The IQAC is integral to the university's commitment to continuous improvement and excellence in higher education. IQAC is currently headed by Prof. Sanjeev K. Sharma, Director IQAC, and Prof. Sakshi Kaushal, Associate Director. Panjab University has undergone multiple cycles of accreditation by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) , reflecting its commitment to maintaining high educational standards. The accreditation details are as follows: Internationally, Panjab University

1480-552: Was inaugurated in 1975. It houses the office of the Dean University Welfare and university students' council. There is a cafeteria called Indian Coffee House with a panoramic view on the top floor of the centre it was shut down during COVID 19 Pandemic but now resumed its operations. Various events and plays are performed in the Student Centre. The Central Library is named after its late Vice-Chancellor of

1520-401: Was instituted in the year 2009. It is given to organizations (both private and public) and individuals for "playing a visible role in the area of sports promotion and development" over the period of last three years. As of 2020, a total of 1,259 sportspersons, coaches, universities and organizations have been awarded the various National Sports Awards. Forty-three sportspersons have been awarded

1560-424: Was later shortened to Panjab University in 1950. In 1956 the university was relocated to Chandigarh, on a red sandstone campus designed by Pierre Jeanneret under the guidance of Le Corbusier . Until the re-organisation of Punjab in 1966, the university had its regional centres at Rohtak , Shimla , Jalandhar and its affiliated colleges were in the present-day states of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. With

1600-1045: Was ranked 1001–1200 in the QS World University Rankings of 2025 and 301–350 in Asia. It was ranked 801–1000 in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2023, 201–250in Asia in 2023 and 201–250 among emerging economies. In India, the 2024 National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings have ranked Panjab University 60th overall, 35th in Research, 38th among Universities, 92nd in Management, 7th in Pharmacy and 27th in Dental. The Indian Council of Social Science Research has set up its North-Western Regional Centre on

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