The University Science Instrumentation Centre provides hands-on experience in different shops useful in instrumentation and develops certain skills in academic and technical personnel. It undertakes maintenance/service of scientific equipments in various departments of the University.

The central workshop has facilities for electronic, mechanical, optical repairs and glass blowing, refrigeration and air conditioning jobs. It is also running a liquid nitrogen plant which supplies liquid nitrogen to different departments in the University, some private nursing homes and veterinary hospitals in the city.

Every year the Centre attends to more than 300 individual jobs pertaining to repair and fabrication in its different workshops. It is also providing service facilities to affiliated colleges.

The University is going to establish a Centre for Immigration Studies which will primarily be research-oriented. Study of Literature and Social Sciences would be main areas of concern at the Centre. The Centre will promote interaction among the immigrant literati and the indigenous ones.

Guru Nanak Dev University would have the distinction in the Northern region for establishing a Media Centre on its campus under the supervision of the Public Relation Department of the University. Keeping in view the fact that the world has become a global village because of the meteoric pace of information technology, a well-equipped Media Centre would go a long way in accessing useful information about the developments occurring in any part of the world. The faculty and the students alike would be greatly benefited by this enterprise.

NSS has been active in the University and its colleges right from the inception of this scheme. NSS volunteers are regularly organizing camps for Blood Donation, Blood Group Testing, Eye Checkup, General Physical Checkup and Preventive Medicare and Immunisations. They are also actively participating in the fight against polio and AIDS.

During special camps the volunteers engage themselves in physical labour also and help in such activities as road repairs, earth work for roads, whitewashing of school buildings, taking care of cremation grounds, eradicating congress grass and tree plantation. The NSS volunteers create awareness about social problems like population explosion, pollution, importance of girl child, evils of dowry system and harmful effects of drinking, drugs and other intoxicants.

As the theme of NSS for this year is “Youth for Haryali”, special care is being taken for the plantation and protection of planted trees. The University has 20,392 NSS Volunteers enrolled for the year 2001-2002 as against the sanctioned strength of 19,500 — which is again the largest in Punjab for a University.

To popularize Punjabi folklore and to ward it off against the lecherous distortions, the University has started building up a Punjab Folklore Museum. The Museum will provide a fairly desirable knowledge of the rich diversity of the Punjabi folklore which forms the true spirit of the rural Punjab, but which is at discount in the face of materialistic onslaughts.

Guru Nanak Dev University has decided to preserve the rich literary heritage of Preet Nagar, Amritsar. In pursuance to this resolve, the Vice Chancellor approached Housing Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) to adopt Preet Nagar and develop it as a model village. HUDCO has accepted the proposal and funds are being provided to renovate old buildings like Heritage Club, residences of Navtej Singh and Nanak Singh.

The Adult Education Department of the University would impart training to the girls of this village in sewing, stitching, networking, embroidery, T.V. and electronics. The University will meet the expenses for maintenance of the guest house constructed by Nanak Singh Trust. The Department of Human Genetics and Disorder will conduct tests free of cost when approached by the residents of this village. The Department of Biotechnology has been assigned the task of developing Preet Nagar as a bio-village.

To preserve the rich heritage of Punjabi culture, the University has decided to set up a Heritage Village on its campus so as to resurrect consciousness among the younger generations of Punjab which are gradually becoming oblivious of the richness of Punjabi culture. The Heritage Village will attract the future generations as well towards the catholic culture of Punjab.

S. Sewa Singh Sekhwan, the Revenue Minister of Punjab, donated Rs. 20 lac out of his discretionary fund for the initiation of this well-meaning gigantic project. Domestic appliances and the ones used for agriculture purposes like Hult, Khras, Gadda, Khuhi, Velna, Sath etc. would be procured from different sources, and if need be, will be purchased.