‘Fostering intellectual dialogue between two Punjabs’: PU mulls inviting University of Punjab, Lahore for annual fest | Chandigarh News
Panjab University, Chandigarh, has decided to consider the proposal of its students’ council to invite the University of Punjab, Lahore for the annual cultural fest, and has constituted a committee to discuss the matter. The meeting of the committee will be held on January 20. After India was partitioned in 1947, the University of Punjab, originally established in 1882 in Lahore of undivided Punjab, was also bifurcated. While the original university continued to function in Lahore in west Punjab (Pakistan), the PU Chandigarh was formed for Punjab that exists in India. The PU Campus Students Council led by its president Anurag Dalal had submitted a proposal to the Vice-Chancellor (V-C) Renu Vig suggesting that the University of Punjab should be invited for the former varsity’s annual cultural fest Jhankaar-2025. Considering the proposal, the varsity has constituted an eight-member committee headed by Amit Chauhan, dean, students welfare, which will meet on January 20 to mull over the issue. The veteran professors and former academicians associated with the university said that they do not remember any previous …