No Panjab
University hostel for freshers using cars
Thursday November 25, 2010 04:14:47 PM,
IANS
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Chandigarh:
Freshers wanting hostel room in the Panjab University here will
have to give up the comfort of their cars. Pitching in for
eco-friendly bicycles, the university administration has decided
new students with cars will not be given accommodation on the
sprawling campus.
Panjab University (PU) Vice-Chancellor R.C. Sobti said here
Thursday that the university was set to become a role model in
checking environmental degradation through complete pollution
control.
Pointing out that the campus was smoke free already, Sobti said:
"To take a lead in checking air pollution, the university will
encourage use of bicycles and hostel accommodation would not be
provided to the first-year students of any class having cars."
"The university has decided to give interest-free loans to all
students and staff members who would like to buy bicycles," the
vice-chancellor added.
However, not everyone was impressed with the move. Some students
termed it "impractical".
"Students will claim while applying for hostel that they do not
have cars and later make excuses that the vehicle belongs to a
friend or someone else. Who will keep a check on them on a daily
basis?" asked final year student Abhishek.
PU faculty members added that the university had unsuccessfully
tried similar steps in the past.
"In 2007, they did a drama by giving bicycles to senior university
officials with great fanfare. That experiment failed and the
cycles are now rusting away. Later, the VC banned all motor
vehicles on the first Monday of every month by declaring PU as a
no-vehicle zone. No one even talks of these things now," a senior
faculty member, requesting anonymity, said.
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