With the following spherical of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) accreditation this 12 months, Panjab University (PU) has reinitiated its plans to merge its small departments and facilities,

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The college has initiated the method and a particular panel, headed by the dean, college instruction (DUI), has additionally been shaped to deliberate on the matter and make suggestions.

The NAAC, in 2015, had beneficial the consolidation of small cognate departments for the efficient and environment friendly instructing, studying and analysis.

Although a panel was constituted beneath the DUI’s chairmanship in 2019 to make suggestions on the matter, its implementation remains to be pending. Now, the college has initiated the method once more after the merger was placed on maintain in 2019 following an issue over the proposed merger of the Urdu division with the college of overseas languages.

At the time, a number of college members expressed robust opposition to the transfer on the grounds of Urdu not being a overseas language. They additionally criticized the varsity’s failure to seek the advice of the departments on the proposed merger.

Meeting held by panel

The newly-formed panel additionally met on Monday, when members deliberated over the proposals of the earlier 2019 group.

A member of the panel, which is anticipated to satisfy once more quickly, mentioned, “As this was the preliminary assembly, the members mentioned the earlier proposals and it was steered that members might provide you with possible concepts for the implementation of the merger of small cognate departments in a time sure method.”

Other suggestions of NAAC

There are different few suggestions of NAAC which might be but to be applied by the varsity which incorporates that departments to have a minimal of six college members and efforts be made to fill the vacant positions expeditiously. NAAC had additionally beneficial that governing construction, particularly by way of appointment of college deans, needs to be revisited.

During its final go to to the PU in 2015, the council had given the varsity an A grade with 3.35 marks out of 4, an analysis which is legitimate as much as June 24, 2022.