HYDERABAD: The Vice Chancellor Sindh University Jamshoro Professor (Meritorious) Dr. Muhammad Siddique Kalhoro distributed cheques of 6.841 million rupees to a total of 172 students of the university under various scholarship programs.
According to the university spokesperson, a ceremony was held at the senate hall of the vice chancellor’s secretariat, where the vice chancellor distributed cheques among students under the National Endowment Scholarship for Talent (NEST) for the batches of 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. During the ceremony, under the Student Welfare Fund, 15 lucky students, and under the Sindh Educational Endowment Fund, 16 successful students were also given scholarship cheques.
Addressing the ceremony, the vice chancellor of Sindh University, Professor (Meritorious) Dr. Muhammad Siddique Kalhoro stated that under the NEST, each hostel resident student is being given a cheque of Rs. 140,000, and each non-hostel resident student is being given a cheque of Rs. 56,000.
He mentioned that the St
udent Welfare Fund was being contributed by the university’s faculty from their salaries, and each student under this scholarship received a cheque of Rs. 20,000. He further stated that under the Sindh Educational Endowment Fund, each student received a cheque of Rs. 33,000.
The ceremony was attended by Registrar and Director of Students Financial Aid Office, Professor Dr. Mushtaque Ali Jariko, Pro Vice Chancellor Laar Campus Professor Dr. Khalil-ur-Rehman Khumbati, Dean Faculty of Natural Sciences Professor Dr. Agha Asad Noor, Director Institute of Art and Design Saeed Ahmed Mangi, Jan Alam Solangi and others.