PEC University Likely to Change its Name to Punjab Engineering College
- As per the recent guidelines issued by the HRD Ministry, PEC University has no option but to change its name to Punjab Engineering College.
- Deemed universities should not have the university tag in its name. It can mention ‘deemed-to-be-varsity’ in the brackets.
As per the recent guidelines issued by the HRD Ministry, PEC University has no option but to change its name to Punjab Engineering College. According to the guidelines, deemed universities should not have the university tag in its name while it can mention ‘deemed-to-be-varsity’ in the brackets. Following this change, the varsity will have to change its logo, website URL, hoardings and others in which PEC has been mentioned as PEC University.
Experts feel that the change in name will affect its branding. People who are associated with PEC will be kept in the loop if the name is changed. For common people, change in name will create confusion. PEC will have to create a market identity with the new name.
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PEC University of Technology has been trying to get IIT status since the 1960s. The government of Punjab planned to convert the institution to an IIT and submitted a proposal on the same to centre in the 1960s. Later, the Governor of Punjab also approved the proposal of converting PEC into an IIT. The centre agreed to give an IIT status to PEC in the third five-year plan. The centre had asked the Punjab government to provide financial assistance. However, nothing was materialised and the proposal was further pushed to the fourth five-year plan.
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A proposal was made again 1966 and was again pushed further due to the reorganisation of Punjab state. The state government did not follow up on the matter. A fresh proposal was made again in 1996 to upgrade PEC into a National Institute of Technology.
In the year 2003, the HRD Ministry granted deemed-to-be-varsity status to PEC and the name of the institute had been changed to PEC University of Technology. As per the instructions of HRD Ministry, the state government in 2014 submitted a fresh proposal to upgrade PEC into an IIT or NIT.