Chandigarh, Nov. 8 -- The Union ministry of education has withdrawn its notification to restructure the Panjab University's (PU) governing bodies - the senate and syndicate, effectively restoring the earlier governance system of the 143-year-old institution. A new notification issued by the Centre on Thursday, under Section 72 of the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966, rescinded the November 4 notification, which had announced governance reforms but said that the same would come into force on a future date. The original notification announcing the reforms came on October 28, but was withdrawn subsequently. "...it has now been decided by the ministry of education that the aforesaid order changing the constitution & composition of the senate and syndicate shall stand rescinded," the ministry said in a statement released on Friday. The October 28 notification which stated the provisions related to the dissolving of the existing elected senate and syndicate of PU, replacing them with smaller, largely nominated bodies, triggered a political row, with Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday announcing that his government would approach the Punjab and Haryana high court against the notification. The roll back came amid continued protests at the university, where students have been camping outside the VC's office for over a week. In changing the governance structure of the university, the Centre had sought to reduce the number of senate members, the apex governing body in place since its inception, from 97 to 31; abolish elections to the syndicate, the executive body; and scrap the registered graduate constituency....