PU to play role of technology enabler for region

Chandigarh, August 6, 2019: The first meeting of the Programme Advisory Group (PAG) of Technology Enabling Centre(TEC) Panjab University sanctioned by Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, Government of India was held under the Chairmanship of Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

VC shared with the members that Panjab University is already geared up to take newer initiative as proposed under the mandate of TEC and he further affirmed a full support to the Coordinator and Co-Coordinator so as to enable Industry Academia toward commercialisation.

Panjab University is one among the nine institutes which were selected, for setting up TEC Centre, after a competition at ICT Mumbai last year. Under this centre Panjab University would play a role of enabler for transferring the technologies from Academia to Industry besides University would also create the data base of the expertise available in the area for the industry, mining of the technologies, identifying and sorting the problems of industry helping MSME’s so that the intellect available in the academia could be utilised for development of products for the betterment of human life.

Under this centre, PU would organise various innovation events, workshops, idea generations, look to possibility of industry sponsored PhD’s, technology evaluations etc. The University would map various industries and create a data base with priority target in the area of Bio Medical Devices, Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Engineering & IT and Food & Agriculture.

PAG members discussed the view points and approved the proposed agenda of PU-TEC for first year. The members who participated in the discussion included Mr. Sarvjit Singh Virk, President CII, Dr. DNV Kumara Guru, Director External Relations, ISB Mohali, Dr. Pushvinder Jit Singh, Managing Director, Tynor Orthotics, Prof. Arun K. Baranwal, PGIMER Chandigarh, Dr. Anita Aggarwal & Dr. Krishna Kanth Pulicherla represented DST, New Delhi, Dr. Vinay Mehta from Chitkara, Prof. Rupinder Tewari, Prof. Rakesh Tuli, Prof. Manu Sharma, Co-Coordinator TEC and Prof. Sanjeev Puri, Coordinator TEC. Panjab University is expected to receive a grant of Rs. 1 crore for the first year followed by further extensions for a period of 5 years amounting to Rs. 5 crores.