do you plan on making the campus apoliticali guess that would be a herculean task considering we have a students council and a senate that has elected members so if we really are serious about making pu an apolitical educational institute well have to bring in some serious governance reforms and some reforms have already been suggested and well look into that if something can be donethe last year was also dramatic due to a number of protests by various students unions will you crackdown against such activitieswe have a democratic system where different council members are elected and various political parties have their student wings which take part in the elections so in order to win votes theyve to protest and show results those things protests will continue its a democratic processi remember when i used to study at pec they also had a president but they stopped doing it soon afterdid you take part in elections as a studentno not in the elections but we didnt have a girls hostel at that time and three girls had to share a single room that got congested so we picked up that issue with the administration and they had to do makeshift arrangements for usputa had raised several demands including implementation of seventh pay scale is there a tentative deadline for the samethe process is very long as pu has a huge staff but we have already started with it and i think by marchend we should be able to implement the seventh pay scale from april onwards everyone should get paid as per the new scalevisuallyimpaired students recently protested against campus not being accessible to them how will you ensure their welfaretheir demands have already been accepted by the dsw were also looking into purchasing a visuallyfriendly teaching software but these things take timeyou recently also held the charge of dean of research with pu facing fundcrunch how will you ensure research doesnt suffer in the backdrop of financial constraintsi think the science department already has enough projects and research grants and were regularly buying new equipment well encourage faculty to get in more grants to strengthen our infrastructure