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Sunday, November 10, 2013
AIOU to help students develop new scientific devicesISLAMABAD: The Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has launched a project to facilitate its students to develop new devices to meet new challenges in socio-economic fields, especially health and energy.
Addressing a meeting held here on the occasion of the International Science Day being observed today (Sunday), AIOU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Nazir Ahmed Sangi said students would be provided science equipment to help them develop new devices. In this connection, an annual grant of Rs 5 million had been allocated to meet the requirements.
The AIOU, he said, had already set up a science club to encourage the youth to promote science and technology in the country. He said the club had been working under the name of ‘Science for the Society’ on a countrywide basis.
Under the scheme, the students of the AIOU and other educational institutions would be invited to present their projects that could be useful for resolving issues being faced by the under-privileged sections of the people, particularly those living in rural areas, he added.
He said all possible academic and financial support was being provided to the club to overcome problems relating to energy, water shortage, food and health sectors.
The VC invited the students to join the ‘Science for the Society Club’ to work together and promote science education in the country.
Dr Sangi said the students from the Department of Physics, in the club, had recently invented some scientific devices useful in daily life. The devices invented under the club included obstacle-detecting stick for the blind and learning-kit for use in schools and colleges, he said.
The VC said the AIOU would set up science laboratories in all its regional campuses around the country and start-of-the-art laboratory equipment would be provided for the promotion of science education. online
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