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Chandigarh was built not only to provide new homes to individuals uprooted by partition but also to provide a home to institutions which had been forced to relocate. Chief among these were the Panjab University, the Punjab Engineering College and the Government College of Arts. Among the new teaching and research institutions established in Chandigarh in the decade of the 1960s is the Postgraduate institution of Medical Education and Research and College of Architecture. These are the institutions of nationwide reputation. Over the past four decades many more such specialized institutions have been located here, giving the city a base of highly educated manpower, which will enable it to move rapidly into the information age. |
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Panjab University |
(Sector 14) |
An affiliating and teaching university offering Arts, Sciences, Commerce, Business Management, Design and Fine Arts, Music, Theatre, Education, Engineering and Technology, Languages, Law, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Animal Husbandry and Dairying. The university also conducts an evening college and Correspondence Studies. |
|  | Incorporated in 1882 at Lahore; assets and staff of the institution were divided in 1947, with those opting for India migrating to Shimla, where the University operated from the camp. In 1956, the University shifted to the Chandigarh Campus, Sector 14 is entirely occupied by the Panjab University; the campus was designed by Pierre Jeanneret and boasts some of his finest works, notably the Gandhi Bhavan, the library, the administration building and the student centre. |
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The Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research |
Before 1947, East Punjab was very thinly provided with good hospitals and teaching institutions. The premier institution of medical education, the King Edward Medical College and Hospital, was located at Lahore. Partition uprooted scores of KEMCH faculty, and of course hundreds of other doctors practicing in the territories west of the Radcliffe Line. |
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The creation of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research solved two problems: it resettled a large number of doctors and it gave East Punjab the kind of medical college and hospital it lacked. One hundred and fifty seven acres in Sector 12 were set aside for the institute buildings and Nehru Hospital. Today these buildings include the blocks housing the pre-clinical and para-clinical departments, the College of Nursing, Bhargava Auditorium, the cobalt therapy block, a gastro-enterology centre, an oral health sciences centre, an advanced pediatric centre with 350 beds, and a renal transplant centre. In addition, hostels, staff quarters and all the associated ancillary units of a hospital and medical college occupy the campus. Nehru Hospital, with its lecture theatres and numerous wings, has 1091 beds. |
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Since 1962 when the institute was established, the PGIMER has grown in every respect: number of medical specialties taught, in the number of students and faculty, in sophisticated medical equipment and most of all, in the number of patients treated. Nehru Hospital was originally intended to be a referral hospital, but increasingly its high standard of treatment has made it the first option of people in need of treatment. They come not only from the Union Territory but from the adjoining states and even from distant parts of India. |
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The Government Medical College |
The establishment of a medical college at Chandigarh was a long-standing demand. Not only did the citizens of Chandigarh feel strongly about it, people from Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh joined them in the push to get a medical college for the city. |
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A medical college entails a teaching hospital. Need for another hospital was another strong reason for the clamour to get a medical college for the city. Chandigarh's medical needs had long since outstripped facilities and resources. The General Hospital in Sector 16 was swamped with patients and the PGI's Nehru Hospital -- intended to be a referral hospital -was thronged with patients from all over the region to the extent that its specialist character was thoroughly compromised. Both the PGI and the Sector 16 General Hospital were located in the northern sectors of the city. It was felt that another hospital located in a southern sector would take some of the pressure off the two older hospitals. |
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In 1987, the proposal for the construction of a 500-bed General Hospital was sent to the Ministry of Health; it asked for an allocation of Rs 153.7 in the Seventh Five Year Plan. Five years later, in the 1991-92 Annual Plan, the Chandigarh Administration allocated Rs 100 lakh for the project and this was accepted by the Planning Commission. The Administration provided a 36.9 acre campus in Sector 32-B to the new institution and work began in 1992-93. |
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| TECHNICAL INSTITUTIONS |
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| The Panjab Engineering College |
(Sector 12) |
Affiliated to the Panjab University .The PEC was started as Maclagan Engineering College in Lahore and shifted to Chandigarh after partition. In 1994 this institution was adjudged the best technical college in India by the National Foundation of Engineers. It occupies a 146-acre campus with facilities for all sorts of sports, a gymnasium and swimming pool, playing fields and numerous specialised laboratories and libraries for the various engineering disciplines. The PEC offers four -year Bachelor degree programmes in Aeronautical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Electronic Communication, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, Production Engineering. Master of Engineering is offered in Civil Engineering (Highways), Civil Engineering (Irrigation and Hydraulics), Civil Engineering (Structures), Civil Engineering (Environmental), Electronic Engineering (power systems), Mechanical Engineering (Rotodynamics), Electronics Engineering, Materials and Metallurgy, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Electronics Product Design. Facilities for doctoral research are available in all departments. |
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| Chandigarh College of Architecture |
(Sector 12) |
Affiliated to the Panjab University. Le Corbusier designed the college building and was instrumental in the establishment of the institution in 1961. It offers a five-year Bachelor of Architecture degree and admits 40 students each year; faculty numbers 23. The college has a computer-aided design centre and a well-equipped library. |
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| The Government College of Art |
(Sector 10) |
This college was founded in Lahore as the Mayo School of Art; after partition it relocated in Chandigarh. Affiliated to the Panjab University. This institution provides four-year degree Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in four branches of visual arts namely applied arts, graphics and print making, painting and sculpture. It admits 64 students each year (10 in sculpture and 18 in the other three specializations); 60 per cent of the seats are reserved for students who have studied in Chandigarh schools for two years and passed one of the lower examinations from these schools. |
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| Chandigarh College of Engineering and Technology (Central Polytechnic) |
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Offers both full time and part time courses in various branches of engineering (civil, mechanical, electrical, electronic and communication, production and architectural assistantship). |
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| The Government Polytechnic for Women |
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Offers six diploma courses. Of these, the courses in Architectural Assistantship, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Modern Office Practice and Interior Decoration are of three-year duration. The courses in Library Science and Pharmacy are of two years duration. |
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The Punjab State Board of Technical Education conducts the examinations in all these courses and the diplomas issued by the Polytechnic are recognized by the state governments and the Central government for the purpose of recruitment in the subordinate services. |
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| Industrial Training Institute |
This institute offers training in 22 trades. The trades include: Carpenter, Electrician, Plumber, Fitter, Welder, Instrument Mechanic, Machinist (composite), Machinist-Grinder, Tool and Die Maker, Turner, Electronics Mechanic , Mechanic -- Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Draughtsman (Civil & Mechanical), Mechanic Motor Vehicle, Diesel Mechanic, Stenographer (English, Hindi), Cutting & Sewing, PTS & DTP Operator, Information Technology & Electronics System Maintenance (ITESM). |
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Total sanctioned intake is 412 students. |
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| The Government Central Crafts Institute for Women |  | This institute offers eight Industrial Training Institute courses, namely cutting and tailoring, embroidery, hand and machine knitting, dressmaking, manufacture of leather goods and stenography (English, Hindi and Punjabi). All are of one-year duration. In addition tailoring and embroidery are offered in the shape of the one-year CTI courses and in the six-month intensive training scheme. |
| In the Industrial Training Institute courses, 416 seats are sanctioned; 80 seats are sanctioned in the CTI courses and 20 in the intensive training schemes |
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| Food Craft Institute |
The Food Craft Institute, located in Sector 42-D, was established in 1973 to turn out trained personnel ready to enter the hotel, restaurant and food products industry, as well as to popularize wholesome foods which would add diversity to the traditional Indian diet. In 1995 it shifted to a small campus in Sector 26 to a much larger one in Sector 42. |
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It offers five training streams: Front Office, Food and Beverage Service, Cookery, Bakery and Confectionery and Housekeeping. While theory is not neglected, the practical side is the backbone of instruction at this institute. Each section has its "set" -- that is rooms, lobbies, kitchens and dining rooms set up just as one would find them in a real on-the-job situation. The institute also runs a training restaurant (Nimantran) and a pastry shop (Elevenses) open to the public. At the end of their course, all students are sent for training to leading hotel chains, catering establishments or shipping companies. With very few exceptions they are absorbed in these enterprises at the end of their apprenticeship. |
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Apart from full-time professional courses, the institute offers part-time courses for housewives, refresher courses for industry personnel and short-term professional courses in Food and Beverage Service and Kitchen. |
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