Chandigarh, July 15 -- Nine months after Punjab Engineering College (PEC) registered a new memorandum of association (MoA) restructuring its governance, the institute continues to function without an executive council and a regular vice-chancellor, the two bodies now vested with its highest administrative and academic decision making powers.

PEC filed the new MoA with the registrar of firms and societies, UT Chandigarh, on October 9, 2025, replacing its earlier board of governors-director model with a vice-chancellor and executive council structure, in line with the UGC (Institutions Deemed to be Universities) Regulations, 2023. The executive council is defined in the MoA as the institute's "highest governing body" and "principal executi...