The Union Higher Education Secretary Ashok Thakur on Friday that Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh would get regular funding from the Union Government.
While addressing the interactive session with members of Chandigarh Region Innovation and Knowledge Cluster (CRIKC) Institutions, Principals of Colleges of Chandigarh at the ICSSR Hall in PU campus, Thakur appreciated the coming together of leading educational institutions like PU, PGI, PEC, IISER Mohali, NIPER etc. in form of CRIKC and describe it as ‘great sign’. Similar efforts are being done in Delhi and Hyderabad also but the amount of enthusiasm in Chandigarh is unsurpassed, he added.
Thakur said that CRIKC would be the first project, where different institutions come together and are given funds by UGC. “let it be an example for whole of the country”, he added.