Academic Staff Association and Project Directorate of Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) have jointly set up a relief camp for the flood-affected people of Balochistan and Sindh at the main campus of the university located in H-8. AIOU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Nazir Ahmed Sangi visited the relief camp and donated Rs 50,000 for the flood-affected people of Balochistan and Sindh.
Dr Sangi said that on the appeal of the president of Pakistan, the AIOU had made 10 percent increase in fee concession for the recently flood-affected areas in the country. He advised all the academicians, officers and employees of the university to donate cash and other goods like tents, medicines, blankets, clothes and food for the flood-affected people.
Besides, Dr Sangi directed the officials concerned to fumigate all the buildings of the university as well as residential colony to avoid dengue virus. He wanted to have an awareness campaign in which literature about safety measures against dengue virus could be distributed among all the regional campuses of the university. He said joint efforts were required to curb dengue virus. He said: “We will win through unity, faith and discipline.
Academic Staff Association President Iqbal Shah said it had been decided unanimously by all the three associations of the university—ASA, OWA and all the three groups of EWA—that one-day salary of all the employees from BPS 1 to 22 would be donated to the Prime Minister’s relief fund set up for the flood-affected people of Sindh and Balochistan. At the end, Dr Sanaullah of the Quran and Fiqh Department led special prayers for the blessings of Almighty Allah against dengue and floods in Baluchistan and Sindh.
