Punjab Government has constituted Punjab Higher Education Council under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal for Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) — the National Higher Education Mission.
The State’s Education and languages Minister Sikander Singh Maluka will be the vice-chairman and Principal Secretary, Higher Education and language Dr Roshan Sunkaria would be the chief executive officer of the Council, stated the spokesman of higher education department.
The council has seven nominated members from the field of Art, Science and Technology, Culture, Civil Society and Industry including eminent doctor and Advisor to Punjab Government for Health and Medical Education Dr KK Talwar, eminent agriculture scientist and Punjab State Farmers’ Commission’s chairman Dr GS Kalkat, eminent academician Chander Mohan, leading industrialists and chairman-cum-managing director of Vardhman Group Paul Oswal, Trident Group Sanghera’s chairman Rajinder Gupta, social activist and Harpal Tiwana Foundation’s chairman Neena Tiwana, and eminent scholar and SGPC Education director Dr Dharminder Singh Ubhan. PNS
Besides, seven persons would also be included in the Council as ex-officio members. They are: Chandigarh’s panjab University’s vice-chancellor (VC) Arun Grover, Patiala’s Punjabi University’s VC Dr Jaspal Singh, Amritsar’s Guru Nanak Dev University’s VC Dr Ajaib Singh, Faridkot’s Baba Farid Medical University of Health Sciences’s VC Dr SS Gill, Jalandhar’s Punjab Technical University’s VC Rajnish Arora, besides the State Project Director of RUSA and state Principal Secretary Anjali Bhawra as special invitee.