The Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India (GOI) has released a sum of Rs 32.47 lakhs for science infrastructural development of DAV PG College.
The Ministry had sanctioned a sum of Rs 1 crore for the college under Fund for Improvement of Science and Technology infrastructure (FIST) project and the amount released is the second and last instalment.
The Principal of the college, Dr Devendra Bhasin said that after taking notice of high standard of research and academic activities in science subject of the college, an amount of Rs 1 crore was released by the ministry to strengthen science infrastructure of different departments.
He informed that works like purchase of equipment, networking, purchase of books and computational works are going on in different science departments of college from the funds made available. Bhasin said that the college has submitted the Utilization Certificate (UC) of the works in six science department from the first instalment of Rs 57.50 lakh.
On Thursday a meeting of FIST committee headed by the Principal was organised in the college.
The convener of committee Prashant Singh, Head of Department (HOD) Chemistry Dr S P Mittal, HOD Physics Dr T P Mittal, HOD Zoology Dr R K Johri, HOD Botany Dr R K Jain, and HOD Statistic Dr Jharna Banerjee discussed the purchase and other works which can be taken up from the fund provided.