pune savitribai phule pune university is working towards setting up a covid 19 testing centre in its premises said sppu vicechancellor nitin karmalkar in a statement to the media he also said that a ventilator has been developed by a university startup and necessary approvals and funding has been received for the samemeanwhile nitin gadkari minister of micro small and medium enterprises held a webinar interaction with startups from centre for innovation incubation and enterprises sppu on saturday a group of faculty members from savitribai phule pune university sppu have now begun to volunteer at the indian institute of science education and research pune covid19 testing centre to expand covid19 testing capability and pipeline output sppu will also be placing two rtpcr machines for data validations at the iiser pune covid19 testing centre said a press release from indian institute of science education and research