10,410 applications for 135 courses at PU

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, June 26

A total of 10,410 applications have been received for 135 courses at Panjab University.

The BCom course at the Department of Evening Studies-Multi Discipilinary Research Centre received the highest number of applications at 977 for 70 seats in General category, seven in NRI and four in foreign national category. The department’s BA course received the second-highest applications at 899 for a total of 200 General seats, 20 NRI and 10 foreign national seats. At 723, the Department of Economics’s BA (Hons) course got the third-highest applications for 29 General, four NRI and one foreign national seats.

However, the Department of Russian’s Advance Diploma in Russian course, MTech (Polymer) at DR SS Bhatnagar University Institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology and MA (History) at Evening Studies-Multi Discipilinary Research Centre received one application each.

The Centre for Systems Biology & Bioinformatics’s MSc course, advance diploma in Chinese at the Department of Chinese and Tibetan Languages, MSc in industrial chemistry at DR SS Bhatnagar University Institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology and ME in biotechnology at University Institute of Engineering & Technology got only two applications each.

3 takers for 3 courses

There were only three takers in each of the courses — advance diploma in German, MPED and diploma in Russian at the Department of German, Department of Physical Education and Department of Russian, respectively.

Talking about receiving the maximum number of applications, Prof Gurpal Singh, Department of Evening Studies-Multi Discipilinary Research Centre, said, “This is because we have council members who go to different parts of Punjab to fetch more and more students to enrol in the courses offered at the department. A major problem that we face, especially when it comes to the implementation of rules and regulations of PU, is that of allocating hostel rooms to students of our department. We have the maximum strength and therefore, we generate maximum revenue for the varsity.”