Amritsar, April 26 : Vice-Chancellor, Prof. A.S. Brar of the Guru Nanak Dev University has distributed Rs. 1.70 lakhs to the needy and intelligent students of Campus of various courses. This amount was distributed in the Endowment Fund of Butalia Family.
On this occasion, Dean, Academic Affairs, Dr. Rajinderjit Kaur Pawar and Dean, Student Welfare, Dr. P.K. Shejpal was also present. Vice-Chancellor while speaking on this occasion thanked the Butalia Family for creating help for needy students. He also exhorted the NGO’s and other to come forward to help in this noble cause.
S. Tej Singh Butalia and Mrs. Jasbir Kaur Butalia who have given Endowment Fund about 50 lakhs in the memory of their parents. With the interest of this fund University is already giving scholarships to needy students every year.
Dr. Pawar said that 17 cheques of ten-ten thousand distributed in students from the half money of the interest and balanced money would be distributed during the admission of needy students.
Among the students who received the cheques are Roop Preet Kaur and Parmandeep Kaur both from Molecular Bio and Biochemistry Department, Arun Sachdeva from Department of Applied Chemical Sciences and Technology, Priyanka Sharma, Department of Law, Varinder Singh, Political Science Department, Aamna Arora Microbiology Department, Deepank Aggarwal of Electronics Technology Department, Aakrant Saxena from the Department of Sports Medicine and Physiotherapy, Ruby Saini, Physics Department, Kohinoor Sarao, Food Science and Technology Department, Komaldeep Kaur, Mathematics Department, Ajay Kumar, Biotechnology Department, Upkiran Kaur, Music Department, Mandeep Kaur Randhawa, Chemistry Department, Daljit Kaur, School of Social Sciences, Vikrant Sharma from Sanskrit Department and Vivek Kumar Computer Science and Engineering Department.