Dr.Anshu Kataria elected as President of PUCA fourth time in a row

Ludhiana, March 15, 2019: An Annual General meeting of Punjab Unaided Colleges Association (PUCA) was held today to elect the office bearers of PUCA for the 4th Year. Looking at the tremendous efforts being put by the President in last 3 Years, the Governing Body of PUCA unanimously elected Dr.Anshu Kataria as the president for the 4th Consecutive year also. The meeting was attended by various executive members of PUCA.

Other members of the body were also elected unanimously for the fourth year. Advocate Amit Sharma (ACET, Amritsar) as the senior Vice president, S. Gurfateh Gill (Adesh Group, Gharuan) as Vice President; S. Gurpreet singh (Universal Group, Lalru) as General Secretary; Ashok Garg (SVIET, Banur) as Treasurer, CA Renu Arora (SPCET, Lalru) as Joint Secretary-II and Mr. Rajesh Garg(Bharat Group of Institutions). To highlight the financial problems being faced by the Colleges, CA Dr. Manmohan Garg (Gurukul Vidyapeeth, Banur) was made Finance Secretary.

To strengthen the membership of the association, region wise Coordinators were also appointed. Manav Dhawan (PGC, Lalru) as Tricity Coordinator, Cherry Goyal (Vidyaratan College, Sangrur) as Malwa-I Coordinator, Monty Garg (KCT College, Fatehgarh) as Malwa-II Coordinator, Dr. Akashdeep Singh(Global Instt, Amritsar) as Majha Coordinator and Mr. Sanjeev Chopra (HIMT, Jalandhar) as Doaba Coordinator, Dr. Guninderjit Jwanda (Bhai Gurdas) as the Head Scholarship Dept.; CA Venus Jindal, NG of Samana; Mr. Shivom Vashishat, FCET, Ferozpur; Mr. Mohit Mahajan, Golden Group, Gurdaspur; Mrs. Manpreet Kaur Bhogal, RIET Phagwara and Dr. Jeewan Jyoti Sidana, Sidana Insitutes, Amritsar as executive members.

Dr. Anshu Kataria while thanking all the founder members said that with the support of PUCA and various other associations in last three years PUCA has tried it's best to overcome the problems and work in the interest of unaided colleges and students.

CA Manmohan Garg while speaking on the occasion said that in their history of 51 years of Punjab it is for the first time when 13 various educational associations have gathered on one platform, formed Joint Action Committee and jointly acted for the release of scholarship amount for SC students of Punjab. Over 16 States of the Country joined hands and formed Federation of Self Financing Technical Institutions (FSFTI) in interest of technical institutions of the Country. He congratulated Dr. Anshu Kataria for this achievement in his tenure.