on a recent visit to the campus i discovered to my horror that in the name of protecting the environment the punjab university is making a mockery of things. they have build a pukka parking lot next to the pgi gate while a brick lined one would have been more suitable for their needs. they have macadamised all other parking lots inside the campus even though these too could have been made of interlaced brick or simple paving stones. they have covered the walls of a number of buildings in paint even though the buildings are designed-- and have been successfully been so for over three decades-- to be left unpainted and merely cleaned with plain water and rough brush once every five years. Now they are constructing a pukka pathway inside a garden even though the pathways at Sukhna Lake are plain shingled and laid with murram. In the name of planting trees they have uprooted well planted trees. Ankur school to Sarojini a green hedge has been planted where none was needed. Amazing fellows.