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."