Chandigarh, June 10 -- Panjab University vice-chancellor Renu Vig has written to Anandpur Sahib MP Malvinder Singh Kang, assuring him that Punjabi signage plates have been ordered on the GeM portal and will be installed at the earliest--a response that comes after weeks of protests and political pressure over the university's decision to roll out new signboards that featured Hindi, English and Braille but left out Gurmukhi script entirely.

The controversy had escalated after members of student organisation SATH blackened several newly installed signboards across campus in protest. Kang then wrote to Punjab governor and UT administrator Gulab Chand Kataria, calling the omission a "painful erasure" of Punjabi from an institution intrinsica...