PU VC inaugurates workshop for students of Ladakh

Chandigarh: The Department of SAIF/CIL, Panjab University started a one week online workshop on Sophisticated Analytical Instruments especially designed for the students of Ladakh. This workshop will be held From 23- 29th July, 2020. This e-learning initiative was taken to connect the students, researchers and academicians located in remote areas.
 Prof. Raj Kumar,Vice Chancellor, Panjab University, in his Inaugural address, told that Panjab University intends to reach remote areas which lack resources. He shared his vision that an institute like Panjab University having rich value, resources and heritage can provide an opportunity to enhance the capability of students located in remote areas of India.  He encouraged the participants to utilize the facilities at SAIF/CIL, PU. He specifically congratulated Prof. G.R. Chaudhary, Director, SAIF/CIL and his team for their seamless efforts in providing best of the instrumentation facilities and technical training to the students through his department and expressed his vision to extend the impartation of knowledge and training to learners belonging to remotest areas of our country like Uttrakhand, Northeast states, Kashmir and Himachal. He said that CIL/SAIF is the only enriched lab particularly in this region in particular and throughout India in general and Instruments under RUSA will further strengthen the facilities.  
While addressing the participants, Prof. Chaudhary, said that an in-depth knowledge of current advanced instrumentation techniques is of utmost importance as it enables us to explore various aspects of material characterization and such types of workshops can be of great help for researchers in the present times. He assured the commitment of SAIF/CIL towards imparting quality training to the researchers and academicians through more such online training workshops and webinars in future. Dr. Aijaz Ahmad Dar from Kashmir, Ms Stanzin Itga from Leh, Dr. Mohmmad Ishaq from Kargil and Dr Ramesh K Sharma from Panjab University coordinated the workshop. 
Experts from SAIF/CIL, Er. Poonam Kumari, Dr. Anil Kumar, Er. HPS Kang and Dr. Rohit Sharma from the Chemistry department will deliver talks/demonstration on various analytical instrumentation techniques including UV-visible, FTIR, NMR, X-ray Diffraction and Electron Microscopy techniques and their applications followed by active interactive sessions from the participants.