HYDERABAD, Dec 16: The Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (MUET) has set up a Students Financial Aid Office (SFAO) to help financially-constrained students study in top public or private institutes by extending them scholarships and grants.
A spokesman for the university said that the SFAO would process all the scholarships and financial aid cases (internal and external) of students. The office set up as per directives of Higher Education Commission (HEC) would keep a centralised record of students seeking financial aid.
The university had appointed Faculty of Engineering Dean Prof Dr Mohammed Ibrahim Pathan as the SFAO focal person, he said.
He said that all the regular students of batch 2007 admitted to all the disciplines of engineering excluding Biomedical Engineering were eligible to seek HEC-Japanese Need Base Merit Scholarship.
Dr Pathan said that besides HEC’s need based scholarship programme for 07 batch MUET students could also apply for other scholarships.
The students could get the application forms from SFAO at the office of dean faculty of engineering.
He said that the last date for submission of forms had been fixed January 25 and advised the eligible students of 07-batch and other meritorious students of MUET to contact SFAO office for further information.
CANAL CLOSURE: The chief engineer irrigation announced on Saturday that the canals fed by Kotri Barrage would remain closed with effect from December 26 to January 10 for normal inspection and necessary annual repairs.
He informed that the barrage’s gates would be raised gradually at 12 midnight between December 25 and 26.
The gates would be lowered again at 12 midnight between January 10 and 11, 2007, he said.
There would be no flow of water in Akram Wah (Lined Channel), Old Phulleli (Pinyari), New Phulleli, K B Feeder Upper, Wadhuwah and Fasadi Wah, he said and advised farmers, cultivators, HDA and other departments to make alternate arrangements for the supply of water during the closure period.
