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.

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