April 19, 2010 – Education Times - Punjab Technical University (PTU), Jalandhar, has been accorded approval by the ‘UGC-AICTE-DEC Joint Committee’ for all its programmes that are being offered through the distance education mode. This decision, which was made in the 35th meeting of the university in the New Delhi, specified that distance education and online education cannot have boundaries or state jurisdiction and therefore theseprogrammes should be offered as per the ACT and statutes of the university.