Peshawar varsity, FMTS join hands
PESHAWAR: University of Peshawar and Fatima Memorial Trust System will start academic linkages in areas which have not been utilized up to the optimum level in higher education system in Khyber...
November 02, 2011
The two-member delegation led by daughter of Sardar Abd ur Rasheed Shamima Rehman visited University of Peshawar to finalize the map and start work on the land donated by the former Chief Minister to University of Peshawar.
Chairperson of Fatima Memorial System who is also the member of Board of Trustees of Wakf ur Rasheed, Shamima Rehman said that University of Peshawar is her Alma Mater and she wants the land to be utilized in the best possible way in support of poor students.
She wished to include a portion of the newly constructed building for a state of the art academic program from where skilled and educated youth can be produced for the country.
Director Planning and Development Bacha Munir Bukhari presented the work plan for construction of the newly proposed plaza.
Bukhari said that University intends to build a three-storey building in this area which would comprise thirty two shops, while the basement as well as top floor of the proposed building would comprise halls.
Shamima Rehman who is currently running the Fatima Memorial Hospital, said that it's high time to give something back to the country
and every one must have the gut to donate from the wealth and property which Almighty Allah has given them.
Earlier Vice Chancellor University of Peshawar Dr. Azmat Hayat said that the land was given to the university by the wife of former chief minister, Sardar Abdur Rasheed and for this purpose a sum of Rs120,000 was given as loan by the University of Peshawar for construction of these shops.
The vice-chancellor said that the Higher Education Commission (HEC) made cuts in the budget of the universities and asked the administration to generate their own resources.
Dr Azmat Hayat said that despite financial constraints 75 to 100 per cent fee concession was given to the deserving students each year amounting to 20 to 24 million rupees. "In the wake of the budget cuts, it has become difficult for the varsity administration to remit fee of the students so it has decided to construct a plaza over the land to overcome the financial problems," he added.
Dr Hayat said that University of Peshawar, established in 1950 had an area of 1050 acres, which has squeezed down to 497 acres after the
establishment of new Universities within the same campus, causing
tremendous space shortage. (APP)
