The state government has increased Punjabi University's monthly grant to Rs 30 crore. 

The state government has increased Punjabi University's monthly grant to Rs 30 crore. A letter regarding a grant of Rs 90 crore for the first three months of the ongoing fiscal, which is in possession of Chandigarh Tribune, was today issued by the Ministry of Finance to the Department of Higher Education.

The government has thus fulfilled a longstanding demand of the university, which is set to help pull the institution out of the fiscal deficit.