Our Correspondent
Bahawalpur
Vice Chancellor, the Islamia University Bahawalpur (IUB) Engr. Prof Dr Athar Mahboob has said that the university has planned a mega development project to promote this institution as center of excellence. He said various steps have been taken for the promotion of quality education in the three districts of Bahawalpur, Rahim Yar Khan and Bahawalnagar through sub campuses of the Islamia University, Bahawalpur.
Talking to radio Pakistan on Wednesday, Prof Dr Athar Mahboob said that after the completion of mega project will be a leading University which will cater the educational need of the remote areas of South Punjab as well as of Cholistan.
He said that for the first time, the university will play very important and central role during the upcoming fifteenth Cholistan Jeep Rally, thorough holding of job fair, establishment of stall by university’s veterinary college and college of arts and designs of the university for the promotion of centuries old art and culture of Cholistan desert.
He told that soon after his assuming the charge, he re-launched evening programmes in those disciplines which had been closed down some years ago so that more students can enroll in the university. He further stated that an extensive campaign was launched during the admission season under one window operation by the university, resulting the receiving of record sixty thousand applications out of which eight thousand students were declared eligible purely on merit to get admission in the various programmes of the university.
Responding to a question, the VC IUB informed that last month special anti-hepatitis campaign was launched across the university for its students and employees, under whom twenty one thousand persons included students, employees and their families were screened with the collaboration of local health department.
Engr. Prof. Dr. Athar Mahboob said that the promotion of quality education through rich faculty is his mission so efforts are being made to hire qualified teachers to enrich the existing faculty of different departments and in this regard the number of faculty has been increases upto eight hundred through merit based recruitment and he is committed to extend it up to one thousand and one hundred faculty members.
