Agriculture university: 191 students to get Rs3.1 million grant

Students were selected after 302 applicants were interviewed.

FAISALABAD:

Faisalabad Development Trust (FDT) on Wednesday announced a grant of Rs3.1 million to 191 un-privileged students at the University of Agriculture.

This was announced by the FDT Chairman Mian Muhammad Tayyab during a board of trustees meeting.

He said these students were recently selected by a three-member scrutiny committee constituted by the vice chancellor for the purpose.

He said the committee, headed by Brig (retired) Muhammad Javed Anwar, had interviewed 302 applicants and had finalised 191 for financial help.

Tayyab said the grant will be given to the students as cheques in February, with which, he said, they will be able to pay the fees for the current semester.

The board members also approved a one-time supply of ration to widows and disabled people.

The board members also decided to offer help to the health and education sector to help the poor and needy patients and students.

The board members also considered the request of the district headquarters hospital medical superintendent for the supply of injections, transfusion sets and medicines to the patients at the Thalassemia Centre.

Tayyab said this would cost the Trust Rs1.2 million. He said Abid Kamal, one of the trustees, had volunteered to donate the amount to the DHQ Hospital.

The members also discussed the draft of an MOU proposed to be signed between the Agriculture University and the Faisalabad Development Trust for 10 years to provide schooling to 500 students at the university campus on Jhang Road.

A request from the director at the Punjab Institute of Nuclear Medicine for donation of machinery and apparatus for the institute at a cost of Rs8.5 million was deferred till the next meeting.

The supply of seven laboratory machines, two ambulances, a generator and medicines to the DHQ Hospital, Toba Tek Singh, was also deferred till the next board meeting. The date for the meeting was, however, not decided.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 2^nd, 2012.