HYDERABAD, Sept 1: Pr-ojects at a cost of Rs26 million funded by Higher Education Commission (HEC) in the University of Sindh were inaugurated, here on Friday.

Among these projects was a well-equipped tissue culture/molecular biology laboratory at the department of physiology which cost Rs11 million and has been jointly funded by the university and the HEC.

The founder faculty member of the department and former vice-chancellor of the university, Dr Abdul Qadir Ansari inaugurated the laboratory.

Dr Ansari also inaugurated the extension of the department constructed at Rs7.532 million cost funded by HEC.

Vice-Chancellor Sindh University Mazharul Haq Siddiqui, former vice-chancellor Sindh Agriculture University Dr A.Q Mughal, pro-vice chancellor Dr Rafia Ahmed Shaikh, deans, heads of different centres, institutes and departments of the university attended the ceremony.

Dr Ansari underlined the need for research on the occasion. He said that it is most essential that the university teachers should utilise the available facilities and train their students to serve the society.—Bureau