Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Nazir Ahmed Sangi said the university would soon set-up a rural development institute to promote agro-based socio-economic education, enabling its students to earn their livelihood and serve the society for its healthy development.
This he said while inaugurating the AIOU’s campus in Bahawalpur on Thursday.
The institute, to be set up in Bahawalpur district would serve as a model for imparting skill-based education to the people at their nearest place, through distance learning system.
The university would also establish a renewable energy institute in southern Punjab to support the government in its efforts to overcome the energy crisis.
Dr. Sangi underlined the need of undertaking joint efforts by the public and private-sector universities for helping the government to overcome the problems of unemployment as well as addressing the issues like energy crisis.
