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said Dr Susil Kumar Mittal, who took over as the 19th Vice Chancellor (VC) of the university on Saturday.
He added that the IKGPTU family together will give a new direction to technical education.
Dr. Mittal was appointed for a three-year term as a regular VC for the University on 15th June by the Governor of Punjab and Chancellor of IKGPTU Banwarilal Purohit.
Dr. Mittal is an eminent academic who has directed several top academic institutions in the state like Thapar Institute of Engineering. He has also been the Chairman of the Governing Council of SBS State University in Gurdaspur.
The last permanent capital of IKGPTU, Dr. Ajay Sharma, completed his tenure in August 2021 and since then there has been no permanent capital here.
The university has about 280 colleges, including college of technology, management, pharmacy, hotel management, commerce, etc., affiliated with it.
Since August 2021, about half a dozen technical education trustees have been appointed as administrators of V-Cs. All IAS officers, who became the principal secretary of the Technical Education Department, were assigned to take over the duties of the V-Cs.
PTU is the first technical university of the state established in 1997 in Jalandhar after which it was shifted to its new campus in Kapurtala district on Jalandhar-Kapurtala road.
IKGPTU was split into two parts and the new Maharaja Ranjit Singh PTU (MRSPTU), formerly known as MRS Government Technical University located in Bathinda, was established in 2015 with jurisdiction over 11 districts in Malwa district. The erstwhile Congress government promoted two state engineering colleges as technical universities in 2021. Earlier, these two colleges were affiliated to IKGPTU and are now known as Shahid Bhagat Singh State University, Firozpur and Sardar Bint Singh State University, Gurdaspur.
While serving as VC, Dr. Mittal was welcomed by the University Registrar, Dr SK Mishra, and Finance Officer, Dr Sukhbir Singh Walia.
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