A chair set up in a university department in the name of an eminent person is aimed at highlighting various aspects of his/her life. The focus is on carrying out research work and documenting the contribution of that individual towards welfare of society.
A chair is either sustained on an ad hoc grant from the government or by an endowment fund facilitated by an institution or a philanthropist. For instance, the Bhagat Puran Singh Chair was set up with the help of a corpus of Rs 25 lakh by the All India Pingalwara Charitable Society. In GNDU, seven out of the eight chairs were announced by the state government, while the remaining chair-Baba Budha Chair -came up with an endowment fund.
The setting up of these chairs may be driven by political considerations or personal sentiments.
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