HYDERABAD, March 1: Noted poet and managing director of National Book Foundation (NBF), Ahmed Faraz visited the Sindh University and met Vice Chancellor Mazharul Haq Siddiqui in Jamshoro on Friday.

Mr Faraz was accompanied by Aslam Rao, secretary, and Lutf Narejo, Regional Manager of the NBF.

The purpose of the visit of Mr Faraz was to promote readership of the books published by the NBF among the scholars and students in the universities, colleges and schools through the centres and reading clubs established by the NBF in remote areas of the province.

He also offered to establish an NBF centre in the university at Jamshoro.

The vice chancellor welcomed Mr Faraz’s visit and expressed full cooperation for the establishment of the reading club and a branch of the NBF in the Sindh University.

He said that the university was providing all possible facilities to students and scholars and faculty members of the university.

Mr Rao briefed the vice chancellor about the NBF publications. He said that the NBF was also publishing textbooks and had now started publication of books from class one.

He informed that the NBF had established reading clubs at Dadu, Hyderabad, Nawabshah, Jacobabad and Sukkur.

EXAMS: The controller of examinations, University of Sindh, announced on Friday that the B.Ed off-campus and M.Ed off-campus programme bi-annual examinations of 1999-2000 (failed candidates) would be conducted with effect from March 6.

He said that the candidates of Hyderabad, Thatta, Badin and Dadu districts will appear at the examination centre of the Sindh University, Model School, Hyderabad, while the candidates of Mirpurkhas, Umerkot and Mithi will appear at the Government Ibn-e-Rushde Girls College, Mirpurkhas centre, and candidates of Sanghar and Nawabshah districts will appear for the examination at the Government Elementary College of Education, Sanghar centre.