Amritsar, August 14

Even as CM Capt Amarinder Singh today inaugurated the Sant Prem Singh Murale Wale Chair at Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), there are many projects allocated to the university in the past that are running behind schedule.

The Chair, set up in the memory of the eminent educationist of his time, will be headed by a professor along with three research assistants.

Educationists said even two years after the Union Government allocated the Centre of Interfaith Study to the university, work on it was yet to begin. The Centre had earmarked Rs 493 crore for the facility to commemorate the 550th Parkash Purab of Guru Nanak Dev. On May 3, the CM had formed a panel of VCs to work out examination reforms and review curriculum. It was asked to submit its report within 60 days, but it is yet to do so. — TNS