AIOU’s 5,000 students to get laptops

MULTAN: The Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) is distributing over 5,000 laptops among its students across the country under the PM Laptop Scheme. This was stated by AIOU Vice Chancellor Dr Shahid Siddiqui while addressing a ceremony, where 84 students were given laptops at the regional office on Sunday.

He said the second phase of free education programme up to matriculation for the south Punjab students would be launched soon, as the scheme had already commenced in FATA and Balochistan. He added that the university had introduced 26 new programmes during the last three years.



Dr Siddiqui said that degree verification process was being converted to the online system and now it would take only 24 hours for verification, instead of months. He said that free education was being offered to special kids and over 1,000 jail prisoners free of charge. About 28 national and international conferences and over 100 workshops had been conducted during the last three years, he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 25^th, 2017.