Urdu University to have own building

Islamabad

The Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology has planned to put up own building for Islamabad campus.

Currently, the campus operates in a rented Wapda building near Zero Point.

FUUAST Vice-Chancellor Dr. Suleman D Mohammad told reporters here that the university had purchased 80 kanals of land near Kuri Road in Chak Shahzad on the outskirts of Islamabad to build the campus from own resources.

“We’ve fulfilled all formalities, including the Rs3.5 billion PC-1’s development and approval, for putting up the Chak Shahzad campus. Work on it will get underway soon,” he said.

The VC said currently, the university paid Rs3 million a month to the Wapda for using its Zero Point building for campus.

He said around 4,500 students were enrolled in the university’s various courses, while the proposed campus would have the capacity for 10,000 enrollments.

Dr Suleman said the Higher Education Commission had granted Rs80 million for the Chak Shahzad campus establishment but the money went to waste due to the inefficiency of the previous management.

He said the current management had reformed administrative and academic affairs, purchased one bus for Islamabad students and had planned to buy another shortly, sacked ghost employees, cracked down on employees with fake degrees, sent cases against the plunderers of university resources to the anti-graft bodies for action, introduced biometric system to ensure the regular attendance of staff members on duty, recruited guards and procured millions of rupees worth of goods and equipment for Islamabad campus.