Varsity start-up gets Greenpreneur Award

Black Eye Technologies Private Limited, a start-up incubated under Punjab Agri Business Incubator (PABI), Directorate of Extension Education of the university, has been honoured with Greenpreneur Award 2021. Amandeep Srivastava, founder of the start-up, received the award during an online ceremony organized by FICCI FLO, Amritsar, in collaboration with Start-up Punjab. TNS

Discussion on creating awareness on Covid

The College of Community Science organised an online panel discussion to create awareness about coronavirus among villagers. About 100 villagers from various districts of Punjab attended the discussion.

College Dean Dr Sandeep Bains said lack of awareness was the main reason behind the spread of the virus in the villages. The panel discussion was initiated by Assistant Professor Dr Sukhdeep Kaur and experts from different departments of the college.

Dr Kuldeep Singh, head, Department of Extension Education and Communication Management, laid stress on vaccination to curb the spread of the virus. Professor Dr Kanwaljit Kaur sharing her experience of recovering from the virus and laid emphasis on the importance of getting tested. TNS

MoU on brewed vinegar signed with Nashik start-up

The university entered into an agreement with a Nashik (Maharashtra) startup, Celebrating Farmers Edge International Private Limited, for licensing of fermentative processing technology ‘Brewed vinegar production from sugarcane and fruits.’ The pact was signed by Dr Navtej Singh Bains, director of research; and Vipan Sareen, director of the start-up.

Dr GS Kocher, principal microbiologist-cum-head, Department of Microbiology, said the university had been actively engaged in research on fermented vinegar. The research focuses on increasing the use of fermented/natural vinegar prepared from traditional fruits that carry nutritional and therapeutic values besides value addition of the horticultural produce, he added.

Dr AS Dhatt, additional director of research (Horticulture and Food Science), said the university had so far signed six memoranda of agreements for the commercialisation of brewed fruit vinegar technology. TNS