The PDM University, Haryana, recently celebrated first orientation day at Bahadurgarh campus. The first batch of students were welcomed along with their parents at the function which also marked the start of first academic session. Two times gold medalist from Delhi University Prof AK Bakhshi has been appointed as vice chancellor. Prior to joining as the VC of PDM University, Prof Bakhshi was the VC of U P Rajarshi Tandon Open University, Allahabad. He did his post-doctoral training at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany, and at the Kyoto University and the Institute of Fundamental Chemistry, Kyoto. He has been recipient of several awards. He was elected as the president of the section of chemical sciences of the Indian Science Congress Association. He has also been the director of the Illl, University of Delhi. Prof Bakhshi is one of the first persons from an Indian university to be elected as the member scientist of ‘Third Indian Research Expedition to Antarctica’ in 1984.
While addressing the students, Prof Bakhshi stressed upon the value of discipline and time management to be successful in life. The director Dr Rajesh Sood said that courses like llB and PhD will soon be incorporated along with the already existing graduate and PG programmes fulfilling the dream of total education under one roof of Prabhu Dayal, the noted philanthropist, in whose memory PDM was established.