PEC sinks to 85th All India Rank as given by the MHRD

PEC stood at 38th position in 2016 and Thapar University was at 27th position then.

Thanks to the able management, the Thapar University has improved its ranking to 26th in 2017.

Sadly, the PEC has fallen from 38th position to an all time low of 85th position in the latest rankings released by the NIRF (MHRD).

Even Nirma University is better than the PEC at 79th position.

https://www.nirfindia.org/EngineeringRanking.html

It is a matter of great worry for the PEC, its alumni and well-wishers.

Sadly, students no longer want to come to the PEC to do Engineering.

Glory of PEC has gone to dust. Once upon a time, PEC was a coveted Institute and used to be in the top-10 in the country.

The present management seems to have totally failed.
It is high time the Director and other top brass including the Deans are held accountable.
The delinquent heads must roll.

The new Director had released the PEC Anthem with great fanfare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO88NcjK9NI

The Director Shri Manoj Arora wanted to take the PEC की दिशा  प्रकाश की ओर
but sadly he and his team have taken the PEC to total अन्धकार and darkness.

Chandigarh Administration must order an inquiry into the matter.

Student's View about the PEC Faculty: Fall of PEC Students

UGC Inquiry against the PEC

PEC Faculty have demanded UGC inquiry, alleging favoritism, manipulation and violation of UGC rules in CAS promotions, by the PEC Director.

PEC faculty, staff and students protest against PEC management

In a cunning move the PEC Director Prof Manoj Arora and PEC Registrar Shri Manish Jindal tried to move an amendment in the meeting of Board of Governors to divest the Chandigarh Administration/Govt. of its control over the PEC University of Technology.

PEC University of Technology earlier called Punjab Engineering College was set up the Govt. of Punjab even much before independence.

Vested interest led by its Directors on deputation from the IITs have earlier also tried to sell this Great Institution to the private players for a couple of Hundreds of Crores of Rupees. It is said that Prof Vijay Gupta also tried to sell the PEC to Tech Mahindra Group. Luckily the employees of the PEC got together and thwarted this evil move.

Privatisation of the PEC would harm the employee’s and student’s interest. Already the Govt. has washed off its hands in the case of PEC Employee ProvidentFund citing that PEC has become a University now. Employees feel insecure now because of uncertain retirement benefits which were earlier guaranteed under the Govt. Control.

After becoming deemed University, Govt. grants have dried up and corruption has reached every nook and corner of the PEC, thanks to the greater autonomy.

REC Kurukshetra became NIT Kurukshetra with more Govt. funds at its disposal. But PEC lost out due to the short-sighted approach of the vested interest led by 3-4 Professors who wanted their retirement age to be enhanced from 58 to 62 when it would become a university. These selfish people have almost destroyed the PEC just for their petty gains.

To boost up the funds, PEC has started self-financing courses where the hapless students are being charged double the normal fees.  This is nothing but donation through backdoor.

Photo: Tribune

Disturbing Developments at the PEC University of Technology: An appeal to the Alumni

Someone shares his views on the developments taking place at PEC,

"...though I am a bit reluctant, as nothing concrete has been coming out, especially during the last 7-8 years.

However, finally I decided to share my views as the scenario is too bad. It is worth mentioning that I joined the PEC, directly as Professor through UPSC almost 16 years back. I can definitely provide some food for thought for the Alumni  to address the real issues while remembering the glory of past.

PEC University of Technology was just like an old school bus when I joined it in 2001. It was painted afresh and named as PEC (Deemed to be University) in 2003-04 and later renamed as PEC University of Technology in 2009.

Professor Vijay Gupta was put on the Driver’s seat by Chandigarh Administration. After seeing the bus (PEC), he replaced its two rear tires, in one go, which had IIT Kanpur brand. The bus started moving ahead on the hilly terrain of processes of U T Administration to explore, innovate and excel. The faculty got disturbed on the accelerated pace; felt nausea, grouped and regrouped, created disturbances and finally the driver left the bus midway, to its fate.

The Chandigarh administration brought another driver (Prof Manoj Datta) after a year. This time from IIT Delhi. The bus was now on the terrain which had hills on the right side and valleys on the left. The driver from IIT Delhi changed the front left tire with a much a bigger brand tire to ensure that the bus did not fall in the valleys. The bus start climbing the hills on the right while moving forward but kept skidding back, to be on the road again. This continued for five years and thus driver took the bus only a little ahead, wasting a lot of precious fuel of resources and time.

Not happy with the performance, Chandigarh administration brought another young driver (Prof Manoj Arora). This time from IIT Roorkee. This young fellow, inspected the bus and immediately concluded that the fourth tire needs to be replaced as it has completely torn out in comparison to the other three, replaced earlier. Seeing the tires of IIT KANPUR and IIT Delhi brand, and after having detailed deliberation with his flocks he reached to the conclusion to replace the fourth tire with IIT Roorkee brand. He preferred to take his flock in the bus, started driving and accelerating it, in his own way. In no time, the poor PEC bus fell into the valley.

Thank God! It did not get crash and is still moving around, in circles, in the valley.

The flock jumped out the bus and start dancing around it because it was now moving at its own natural pace.

Everybody including the administration is happy because it has now got the stability with an assurance that it can’t fall further. To bring it down further, the flock has to dig by putting energy / effort which this flock is not used to.

So our old bus is now quite safe, moving at its own pace and in its own style, having no concern with the changing world scenario around.

Finally, you all are welcome to ride this bus to see the new statues all around in the campus as now we don’t have any respect for the human beings who actually work.

It is worth noting that on an average 110-130 RTI requests are being made per annum for the last 4 / 5 years just to find out why the bus is not moving uphill and reason out the flock dancing with joy in the valley.

Let the Alumni, fix it with their vast experience, if they can."

Academic Malpractice & Corruption in PEC at its Zenith

PEC Director Dr. Manoj Arora sends 2 appreciation letters to one Faculty adjudged as 'Excellent' in 4 subjects.

But later, the same faculty is rejected for the post of Professor. He is given just 5 marks (out of 20) in the interview and 10 marks (out of 30) in the domain knowledge and tecahing practices.

Those having good relations with the Director are promoted inspite of them being graded as 'below average' or 'average' in teaching.

It seems even God cannot save the PEC from such rampant manipulations, malpractices and corruption.

High time parents of brilliant students stop admitting their wards to this once-upon-a time Great Institudtion which stands totally degraded now.

PEC promotes Below Average Faculty as Full Professors while it rejects Above Average Associate Professors

PEC promotes Below Average and Average Faculty as Full Professors under CAS while it rejects Above Average Associate Professors.