Chandigarh, Aug. 10 -- Over a week after a research scholar from Panjab University (PU) was electrocuted to death in the South Campus following heavy rain, PU has announced that each department will form a departmental safety committee to carry out a safety audit of the university.

The initiative to carry out the safety audit had come from the Vice President of India, CP Radhakrishnan, who is also the chancellor of the university. While paying tribute to the deceased student, he had directed the university officials to carry out an overall safety audit of the university, following which the Dean of University Instruction (DUI), Meenakshi Goyal, had issued a circular.

The committee resolved that every teaching department should constitut...