During Zero Hour, Satnam Singh Sandhu, Rajya Sabha MP from Punjab, urged the Centre to establish a ‘Central Horticultural University’ in Punjab by upgrading the Post Graduate Institute of Horticulture Research and Education (PGIHRE), Amritsar. “This University will promote value addition in agriculture and food processing and will also open doors for agri-entrepreneurship for the youth of Punjab. Considering the prime minister’s unwavering affection for Punjab, I urge that it be granted the status of Prime Minister’s Central Horticultural University,” Sandhu submitted. If this institution is given a push in Punjab, the farmers will move rapidly towards crop diversification. Another chunk of land, measuring 30 acres, was required for the establishment of administrative, academic and residential blocks of PGIHRE Amritsar.