Punjab University Vice Chancellor Prof Niaz Ahmad has announced a special admission quota, free education, free hostel accommodation and a monthly scholarship of Rs 5,000 to the children of martyrs from the academic session 2020-2021.
In a statement in connection with Defence Day issued here on Sunday, Prof Niaz Ahmed said that the university had allocated a special quota under which seats at each department’s BS and Master’s level programs had been reserved for the children of martyrs.
He said that children of the martyrs would be admitted every year on the special quota on the nominations of institutions concerned. He said that all the children of martyrs, admitted on quota as well as on merit basis, would be provided with free education and scholarship of Rs 5,000 per month.
He said that the university would also provide free hostel accommodation to all the children of martyrs admitted on quota as well as on merit.
He said that we could not pay back the martyrs however we must make maximum efforts to help their families.
The VC PU said that our martyrs were our assets and we were living in an independent atmosphere due to their sacrifices. He said that the Pakistan Army was defending our boundaries with valour and had presented great sacrifices while safeguarding the nation and the country. He said that the spirit of shahadat of Pakistani soldiers was unique, making them different and exclusive from the rest of the armies in the world.
