chandigarh panjab university intends to provide a virtual environment to students where they can always raise their doubts and have their queries answered for this the university would be starting the concept of virtual classrooms in 2012 as a part of this teachers would be available to students online as per the project live classroom lectures would be recorded and later made available on university website in both video and audio formats pus computer centre will up set up a special multimedia lab for this no institute except iitropar is doing this in the region we have got a grant of rs 50 lakh for this project the lab studio will be set up in a weeks time all the recordings of lectures will be uploaded on pus website director of pus computer centre k tankeshwar told toi our campus students can directly access them and even download them whereas other students will need to first register online we had sent circulars to all pu teachers inviting their reactions response is encouraging and so far over 50 teachers have registered their consent stated tankeshwar the national mission on education through information and communication technology is supporting this project of pu besides pus computer centre will also facilitate online chatting and interaction between teachers and students through video conferencing we will set up chat rooms so that students and teachers can discuss various topics this will enable a student sitting in any part of the country to interact with pu faculty it would also motivate the teachers to update their knowledge base as they would be supposed to deliver lectures on latest topics to an unknown audience pointed out tankeshwar participating teachers will be paid a fixed remuneration depending up on the number of lectures students are quite enthusiastic about this initiative it would be a boon for slow learners students can access the lectures any number of times and grasp things at their own pace said geetika mathur a law student