Chandigarh, Oct. 10 -- Weeks after uncertainty over the conduct of its annual elections, the Panjab University Teachers' Association (PUTA) has scheduled its 2026-27 elections for October 28, following discrepancies in membership-fee transactions that forced the postponement of the original polling date of September 30.

In a notice dated October 8 (Thursday), PUTA president Amarjit Singh Naura and secretary Mritunjay Kumar said the elections had been rescheduled after complaints regarding possible double deductions of membership fees and cases in which transactions processed by the State Bank of India (SBI) were reversed because of insufficient balance in individual accounts were resolved. The accounts have since been reconciled and veri...