LARKANA, Oct 22: The University of Sindh is establishing a campus in Larkana for which land has been selected on the airport road in front of the Cadet College.

Vice-Chancellor of the university Dr Nazir Ahmed Mughal along with officials of the university and the Larkana district administration visited the site on Saturday.

Talking to journalists, the vice-chancellor said that an area spread over 100 acres of the land had been identified for the campus and the procedure to acquire the land was being worked out with the district administration.

Director, Estate, University of Sindh, Mohammed Usman Mangi, said that the university would get the possession of the land in two months. In the meantime the university's planning advisor Dr Mohammed Hassan Shaikh and project director of engineering wing Qamarul Hassan Memon would prepare PC-I of the campus project. Work on the campus buildings would be launched after getting the PC-I approved by the Higher Education Commission, he said.

Initially Information Technology, Business Management, Archaeology and related subjects would be taught at the campus and later 17 more subjects would be introduced there, he said.

The campus would cater to the needs of students from Larkana, Qambar-Shahdadkot, Noushahro Feroz, Ghotki and parts of Dadu district, Mr Mangi said.

The management of the Allama Iqbal Open University had identified 50 acres of land for its campus and 220 acres of land had been selected for the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Medical University, said District Coordination Officer Abdul Aleem Lashari.

He said that the institutes would be in addition to a college already established by the Quaid-i-Awam University of Engineering, Science and Technology on the airport road.

The establishment of different institutes of higher education on the road would lead to the emergence of an education city, the DCO said.