Sindh University’s Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Fateh Muhammad Burfat on Saturday distributed laptops under Prime Minister’s Laptop Scheme among 44 disabled students of different degree programmes.
According to a press release, a simple ceremony was held at the Department of Fresh Water Biology and Fisheries for the distribution. Speaking on the occasion, the VC thanked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for approving a big quantity of laptops for the students of Sindh University.
‘I again request the PM to grant more laptops for Sindh University so that we may give away the same to the remaining poor students’, he added.
He said the SU was catering to the academic needs of over 32,000 students who belonged to various parts of Sindh and added that a majority of students were not able to buy laptops due to their financial limitations.
Dr Burfat said he was working on academic exchange of students and scholarship programmes but majority of the students lacked the passports and personal bank accounts. “Under such circumstances how would the students be able to get exchange and scholarship programmes when they don’t have required travel documents and bank accounts’, he questioned?
The VC said it was the wisdom and vision of the Prime Minister Sharif who introduced laptop scheme for the students and scholars of the universities in Pakistan to help the studies and research. He informed that so far as many as 7,176 laptops under the PM’s scheme had been distributed in first phase which started in 2014 and over 3,700 in the second phase.
The laptop scheme’s focal person Prof Dr Wazir Ali Baloch, Senior Transport Officer Syed Sajjad Hussain Shah, Dr Ameer Ali Abro and others also attended the ceremony.