PU sets up fund for deserving students

LAHORE:Punjab University established Alumni Scholarship Endowment Fund (ASEF) in order to extend financially assistance to deserving students for the completion of their higher education.

In this regard, Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Khalid Mahmood presided over a meeting of the PU Alumni Office on Thursday. The meeting was attended by PU Alumni Office Director Prof Dr Mumtaz Anwar Chaudhry, Planning & Development Director Prof Dr Hafiz M Anwaar Asghar and others officials.

Addressing the meeting, PU VC said that the alumni all over the world provide financial support to their respective universities for promotion of education and research. He said that most of the PU students belonged to the middle class and lower middle class. He said that PU was trying to ensure that no students had to discontinue their higher education due to financial problems. Prof Dr Mumtaz Anwar Ch said that under the endowment fund, deserving students will be given scholarships as well as Qarz-e-Hasna for 10 years. He said that the ‘One Alumni - One Student’ programme is also being launched under which one alumni will provide financial assistance for the education of one incumbent student.