KHARAN Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has been allotted 10 acres of state land in Balochistan to set up a Model Study Centre at Kharan to meet the educational needs of the local people. According to the University’s Director Regional Services Inamullah Sheikh on Tuesday, the Board of Revenue, Balochistan leased out the land to the university free of cost, with the approval of the provincial government. The land is situated in the jurisdiction of Municipal Committee, Kharan. It will enable the university to establish the centre in its own building. Earlier, the Study Centre was set up in a house donated by the Chief Justice of Federal Shariat Court (FSC), Justice Muhammad Noor Meskanzai, who wanted to expand the educational facilities in the province. He had appreciated the AIOU’s distance learning system to achieve the objective.
