The funds provided are to be utilised for strengthening the scientific research base at the university. In a meeting held in the university campus on Monday, the vice-chancellor has decided to give one lakh each to every department in the university for further research work.

Panjab University is the third universities to get this grant, after Delhi University and Hyderabad University. While the other two universities are Central universities with all the attendant benefits, Panjab University is an interstate body corporate in the midst of a resource crunch.

The selection has been done on the basis of H-index value determined on the basis of citation index of the papers published and the impact factor of the journals in which they have been published.