LAHORE, Dec 10: Governor Khalid Maqbool presided over a meeting of the project working groups of the public sector varsities at the Governor’s House here on Sunday, says a handout.

He told the meeting that the government had allocated Rs210 million for the establishment of a 260-acre new campus of Fatima Jinnah University in Rawalpindi. A sub-campus of the varsity, he said, would also be established at Sialkot.

The meeting reviewed ongoing development projects in Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan; Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi; University of Health Sciences, Lahore; University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore; University of Agriculture, Faisalabad; Barani Zarai University, Rawalpindi, and University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila.

The participants were informed that construction of the manufacturing technology development centre was nearing its completion in the Architectural Engineering Department (AED) of the University of Engineering and technology, Lahore, for which Rs100-million laboratory equipment had been imported. The installation of equipment in studio, AED and computer laboratories would be completed within the next two months. —Reporter