UAF campus at Vehari next year

The University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF) will set up its new campus in Vehari district, Vice Chancellor Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan said on Friday. He was addressing a meeting of the dean’s committee at the New Syndicate Hall.
The VC said that undergraduate classes will begin at the Vehari Campus in 2013.
He said the university administration also planned to open its campuses in Bahawalnagar, Layyah and Mandi Bahauddin to provide education opportunities to students from the under developed areas.
Dr Khan said that the UAF had a great track record of setting up three universities- PMAS Arid Agricultural University, Rawalpindi; UVAS, Lahore; and Ghazi University in Dera Ghazi Khan. He said the Toba Tek Singh campus would become an independent university soon.
Prospects Development & Utilisation of Alternative Energy in Pakistan
A two-day Agricultural Engineers’ Moot began at the UAF on Friday.
The event is being jointly organised by the UAF Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology and the Pakistan Agricultural Society (PSAE).
On the first day, a PSAE business meeting was held at the New Senate Hall. It was presided over by PAES president Mushtaq Ahmad Gill.
Speakers and participants discussed matters relating to the amendments in the Constitution, the establishment of PSAE headquarters, the launch of the society’s website and a monthly newsletter. On the second day (today), a seminar on Prospects Development and Utilisation of Alternative Energy in Pakistan will be held at the Iqbal Auditorium.
Dr AQ Mughal, vice chancellor of the Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, and Dr M Abbas Chaudhary, vice chancellor of the University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, are expected to address the seminar. They will highlight probable solutions for the energy crises.
The seminar will be followed by an agricultural machinery exhibition.
An engineers’ night based on performances by members of the UAF young agricultural engineering society will mark the closing of the event.
A winter flower exhibition will also be organised today at the Institute of Horticultural Sciences.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 15^th, 2012

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