Central University of Punjab
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The Central University of Punjab (CUP) is a Central University located in Bathinda, Punjab
, India
. It has been established through an Act of Parliament: “The Central Universities Act, 2009" by Govt. of India. The territorial jurisdiction of Central University of Punjab is whole of the State of Punjab
.
The Central Universities Bill 2009 aims at creating one new central university each in Bihar
, Gujarat, Haryana
, Himachal Pradesh
, Jammu and Kashmir
, Jharkhand
, Karnataka
, Kerala
, Orissa
, Punjab, Rajasthan
and Tamil Nadu
. It also seeks to convert Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya
in Chhattisgarh
, Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya in Sagar (Madhya Pradesh
) and Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University
in Uttarakhand
into Central universities.
The Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, is going to be an ultra-modern and futuristic seat of higher learning by creating a community of teachers, scholars and researchers dedicatedly absorbed in academic exploration, research and development, testing and consultancy. It will have world class infrastructure which would be eco-friendly, and optimally used, with the potential to absorb even yet to emerge technologies. It is striving to be an autonomous and hassle-free space where the creative minds would converge and construct world class knowledge and vision, and where new ideas would germinate, strike roots and grow wings.
The University is creating supporting and stimulating conditions and opportunities whereby one can learn, grow, interact and discover. It would be an exciting, safe, healthy, motivated and happening place with a green energy efficient, Wi-Fi campus, innovative and ignited faculty, global level laboratories, automated libraries, vast playgrounds, auditoria, research centres and other world class support systems.
The University would introduce participatory delivery techniques facilitated through seminars, group discussions, off campus visits, online support, web, multimedia, live projects, field studies, demos, team presentations, skill workshops, etc.
The University would celebrate diversity and shall be open to all persons the world over, irrespective of nationality, class, colour, creed, caste, religion and gender. Human and technological concerns are the bottom-line of this organization. It is endeavouring to develop human resource who would be morally upright, intellectually well-informed, socially concerned, physically well-developed, emotionally balanced and culturally bloomed.
The University works with utmost ethics, transparency, non-interference, accountability and decentralization. This upcoming University is committed to fulfill all the criteria in terms of programmes, faculty, infrastructural supports, and other norms as laid down by the University Grants Commission, and the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
The University would carve out and maintain its national character and global outreach through its instructional and research programmes. It is planned to be a multi-facility and multi-faculty university enshrining state-of-the-art infrastructural support systems for teaching and research. It will bring into public domain the global technological trends for the benefit of every strata of society. It started its functioning from Camp Office in April, 2009, which happens to be the residence of the Vice Chancellor, and from November 2009 it shifted to its City Campus spread over an area of 35 acres. The main campus is coming up on 500 acres of land near Bathinda.
studies as well as integrated doctoral programmmes awarding M.Phil-Ph.D., LL.M-Ph.D.,M.Pharm-Ph.D etc.
, HPLC, Motorized fluorescent microscope, PCR and RT-PCR machines, Cold room storage facility,Animal cell culture facility, Ultrapure water generation facility and so on.
Punjab (India)
Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. It has been established through an Act of Parliament: “The Central Universities Act, 2009" by Govt. of India. The territorial jurisdiction of Central University of Punjab is whole of the State of Punjab
Punjab (India)
Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...
.
The Central Universities Bill 2009 aims at creating one new central university each in Bihar
Bihar
Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
, Gujarat, Haryana
Haryana
Haryana is a state in India. Historically, it has been a part of the Kuru region in North India. The name Haryana is found mentioned in the 12th century AD by the apabhramsha writer Vibudh Shridhar . It is bordered by Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to the north, and by Rajasthan to the west and south...
, Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh is a state in Northern India. It is spread over , and is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir on the north, Punjab on the west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on the south, Uttarakhand on the south-east and by the Tibet Autonomous Region on the east...
, Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir is the northernmost state of India. It is situated mostly in the Himalayan mountains. Jammu and Kashmir shares a border with the states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab to the south and internationally with the People's Republic of China to the north and east and the...
, Jharkhand
Jharkhand
Jharkhand is a state in eastern India. It was carved out of the southern part of Bihar on 15 November 2000. Jharkhand shares its border with the states of Bihar to the north, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to the west, Orissa to the south, and West Bengal to the east...
, Karnataka
Karnataka
Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...
, Kerala
Kerala
or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
, Orissa
Orissa
Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...
, Punjab, Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
and Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...
. It also seeks to convert Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya
Guru Ghasidas University
Guru Ghasidas University was formally inaugurated on June 16, 1983 and is one of the two universities in Chhattisgarh State, India. It is in Bilaspur. It was named after Guru Ghasidas, the founder of the Satnami movement in the region. The jurisdiction of the university is spread across the...
in Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh is a state in Central India, formed when the 16 Chhattisgarhi-speaking South-Eastern districts of Madhya Pradesh gained separate statehood on 1 November 2000....
, Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya in Sagar (Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh , often called the Heart of India, is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and Indore is the largest city....
) and Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University
Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University
Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University is a public university located at Srinagar town in the Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand state in northern India. Named after Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, the university is residential cum affiliating with jurisdiction over Garhwal district of the region...
in Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand , formerly Uttaranchal, is a state in the northern part of India. It is often referred to as the Land of Gods due to the many holy Hindu temples and cities found throughout the state, some of which are among Hinduism's most spiritual and auspicious places of pilgrimage and worship...
into Central universities.
University Profile
The Central University of Punjab, Bathinda (Punjab) has been established through the Central Universities Act 2009 which received the assent of the President of India on 20th March 2009. Its territorial jurisdiction extends to the whole State of Punjab. This newly set up Central University of Punjab (CUP) at Bathinda is poised to write new alphabet on the academic horizon of India. This University is one of the important links in the recently set up chain of Central Universities created in the educationally backward areas of India. Going to be an upwardly mobile organization, it is destined to emerge as a quality provider of teaching and research, knowledge and skills, products and services, attitudes and ethics. It is gearing up to provide proper institutional leadership to the emerging demands of access, equity, relevance and quality in the mainstream University system. It has already flexed its muscles and initiated its first academic session.The Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, is going to be an ultra-modern and futuristic seat of higher learning by creating a community of teachers, scholars and researchers dedicatedly absorbed in academic exploration, research and development, testing and consultancy. It will have world class infrastructure which would be eco-friendly, and optimally used, with the potential to absorb even yet to emerge technologies. It is striving to be an autonomous and hassle-free space where the creative minds would converge and construct world class knowledge and vision, and where new ideas would germinate, strike roots and grow wings.
The University is creating supporting and stimulating conditions and opportunities whereby one can learn, grow, interact and discover. It would be an exciting, safe, healthy, motivated and happening place with a green energy efficient, Wi-Fi campus, innovative and ignited faculty, global level laboratories, automated libraries, vast playgrounds, auditoria, research centres and other world class support systems.
The University would introduce participatory delivery techniques facilitated through seminars, group discussions, off campus visits, online support, web, multimedia, live projects, field studies, demos, team presentations, skill workshops, etc.
The University would celebrate diversity and shall be open to all persons the world over, irrespective of nationality, class, colour, creed, caste, religion and gender. Human and technological concerns are the bottom-line of this organization. It is endeavouring to develop human resource who would be morally upright, intellectually well-informed, socially concerned, physically well-developed, emotionally balanced and culturally bloomed.
The University works with utmost ethics, transparency, non-interference, accountability and decentralization. This upcoming University is committed to fulfill all the criteria in terms of programmes, faculty, infrastructural supports, and other norms as laid down by the University Grants Commission, and the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
The University would carve out and maintain its national character and global outreach through its instructional and research programmes. It is planned to be a multi-facility and multi-faculty university enshrining state-of-the-art infrastructural support systems for teaching and research. It will bring into public domain the global technological trends for the benefit of every strata of society. It started its functioning from Camp Office in April, 2009, which happens to be the residence of the Vice Chancellor, and from November 2009 it shifted to its City Campus spread over an area of 35 acres. The main campus is coming up on 500 acres of land near Bathinda.
Academics
The university does not offer undergraduate studies. Research oriented inter disciplinary Postgraduate programmes offered include regular M.Sc. and M.A.Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...
studies as well as integrated doctoral programmmes awarding M.Phil-Ph.D., LL.M-Ph.D.,M.Pharm-Ph.D etc.
Schools and Centres
- School of Basic and Applied Sciences : Centre for Biosciences, Centre for Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
- School of Environment and Earth Sciences : Centre for Environmental Sciences and Technology.
- School of Global Relations : Centre for South and Central Asian Studies.
- School of Legal Studies and Governance : Centre for Environmental Law.
- School of Language, Literature and Culture : Centre for Comparative Literature, Centre for Museology,Archaeology and Conservation.
- School of Social Studies : Centre for Developmental Economics.
- Scool of Engineering and Technology : Centre for Computer Science and Technology
Research
The university has one of the most exciting research environments in the country. One of the thrust areas of the university is research on Environment and health. Facilities at the Centre for Biosciences includes 96 capillaries Automatic DNA SequencerDNA sequencer
A DNA sequencer is a scientific instrument used to automate the DNA sequencing process. It can be also considered an optical instrument as it generally analyses light signals originating from fluorochromes attached to nucleotides....
, HPLC, Motorized fluorescent microscope, PCR and RT-PCR machines, Cold room storage facility,Animal cell culture facility, Ultrapure water generation facility and so on.