The Punjab government has backtracked on its decision to grant a central university status to Panjab University, Chandigarh, keeping in view the "misgivings in the minds of the intelligentsia". Letters from Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in this regard were sent to the Centre on Monday.
Badal, who was in Patiala on Monday, said the government sent the letters after reviewing its earlier decision of supporting PU's cause. "I have written to the Prime Minister and Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh not to grant central university status to PU."
On August 26, the Punjab government had sent a communiqué to the Centre with regard to its go-ahead to the matter.
PU gets majority of funds from the Punjab government and it was felt that once it got the central status, the state would lose its control over the prestigious university.
Vice-Chancellor R C Sobti had sought the government's help in getting a central status for the university. PU staff had earlier been sitting on a hunger strike in support of the demand.
Badal said Punjab had sought to set up a central university at Bathinda and a world-class university at Amritsar. He was in Patiala to lay the foundation stone of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee's Guru Granth Sahib World University.
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