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HYDERABAD, June 3, (APP): The Sindhi Association of North America (SANA)
has agreed to set up a “Centre for Community Development at University of Sindh, in a bid to ameliorate the lives of the people in society especially those living in Jamshoro.
The decision to this effect has been made in a meeting held between the
Vice Chancellor University of Sindh Prof. Dr. Fateh Muhammad Burfat and a delegation of SANA on Friday evening, the university spokesman informed on Saturday.
The management of University of Sindh Jamshoro and Sindhi Association of
North America (SANA) have decided to make University of Sindh one of a leading higher learning institutions with imparting education to youth on modern methods and availability of state of the art facilities at the campuses.
Highlighting the objectives of the meeting, Dr. Darkhashan Memon, a
scientist of US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) who did her graduation from University of Sindh and attended the meeting as one of the members of delegation said that SANA had intended to give facilities of skill development, career counseling, trainings on real time projects design and road to entrepreneurship under Sindh Skill Development Programme (SSDP) of Sindhi Association of North America.
She said that students’ placement and internship programmes should be
designed to facilitate frequent interactions between the prospective graduates and companies both national as well as multinational eventually leading to placement.
Dr. Darkhashan proposed to establish a business idea centre at
University of Sindh in an attempt to provide graduates to share as well as discuss their business ideas. “If need be, the university graduates can be guided by the centre as how to plan a business setup, how to structure the entrepreneurship and how to move forward with these ideas”, she maintained.
She said that the main idea was to give awareness, encouragement,
promotion and training to those students who were interested to become the masters of their own destiny.
The Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Fateh Muhammad Burfat while accepting the
proposal of setting up a business idea centre at university said that there was a dire need to establish centre for community development through which the lives of people living surrounding the three major universities including Sindh, Mehran and Liaquat Universities could be fine-tuned.
“For constructing a better society, we need to change its condition
through standardized education and quality research; If Chicago is famous due to its university, If London is an educated city because of the Oxford University, why can’t Jamshoro be an advanced city in spite of presence of three mega varsities?”, he inquired.
He said that University of Sindh had no need of money from SANA but its
students need scholarships, opportunities and guidance to get their destination, adding that his varsity distributed the scholarship of Rs 11 billion among the meritorious and needy students in a year.
The Vice Chancellor on the occasion constituted three different
committees out of which two committees would collaborate with SANA nominees in providing training, scholarships and other opportunities of skill development while the third committee headed by Director SU’s Centre of Excellence in Analytical Chemistry Dr. Shahabuddin Memon will conduct research on water and foodstuffs being provided to SU students on the campus and in hostels. The committee will continuously monitor drinking water and eateries that are being provided to pupils by the canteen owners.
Among others, Vice President SANA Mohiuddin Memon, SSDP Programme
Coordinator Hussain Leghari, Programme Assistant Paras Rustmani, Registrar University of Sindh Muhammad Saleem Chandio, Dr. Akhtar Mughal, Dr. Shahabuddin Memon, Dr. Lachhman Das, Dr. Nek Muhammad Shaikh, Dr. Hyder Nizamani, Dr. Aashique Jhatial, Dr. Quratul Ain Nizamani, Dr. Yasir Arfat, Dr. Khalil Khumbhati, Dr. Muhammad Ali Memon, Dr. Farhat Noreen, Dr. Kamran Taj Pathan, Dr. Hakim Ali Mahesar and Dr. Fida Chandio were also present in the meeting.