The University of Karachi on Thursday distributed a Deans’ Research Grant worth more than Rs35 million among 240 faculty members of four faculties of the University.
A ceremony was held at the Arts and Social Sciences Auditorium where grants of Rs30, 150, 000/- were distributed among 201 teachers of science faculty, Rs3, 900, 000/- were distributed among 26 teachers of pharmacy faculty, Rs1, 100, 000/- was distributed between 11 teachers of education faculty, and Rs200, 000/- was distributed among two teachers of faculty of management and administrative sciences.
On this occasion, the acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Karachi Professor Dr Nasira Khatoon said that in societies where intellectuals.
, researchers, and thinkers do not emerge, those societies become stagnant. She termed that a huge investment in the education sector for the development of the nation is required and hoped that the relevant departments of the provincial and federal governments would surely take necessary steps in this regard.