UET Lahore establishes a Center for Energy Research

Lahore, A Centre for Energy Research and Development (CERD) has been established at University of Engineering and Technology’s Kala Shah Kaku Campus. The research project has been setup in collaboration with the Punjab government.

Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif while initiating the centre had declared that Rs20 million as a prize for whole unit per model would be awarded to researchers, who would prepare new models for energy crisis. CM said as Punjab is facing a loss of Rs300 billion annually moreover losing $1 billion in exports because of insufficient energy resources.

He emphasized that the scientists should work on it and discovers short term, midterm and long term way out to the energy disaster by consuming original resources including bio mass.

An up-to-date ‘Resource Room’ for blind, deaf, dumb and physically disabled students will be established in the library of the university, Punjab University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran said.

The vice chancellor declared it while addressing at a lunch presented by him for special students at the Executive Club. He further said that he always gave importance to these special students. All the deans, chairmen, directors and principals of affiliated colleges had been advised to cooperate with them for dogging higher education.

He said that he had already commanded the resident officer to manage a survey and make a practicability report about the construction of bathrooms and toilets for special students at hostels and faculties.

The VC also guided the PU Chief Librarian Muhammad Hanif to make measures for the establishment of a resource room having modern IT network, where special students could get advantage from the up-to-date books and other relevant material for higher studies.
An MPhil student of the PU Special Education Department, Sarfraz Ahmad Khan praised the efforts of VC for delivering of free education to all special students up to PhD level, besides free hostel, scholarships and transport facilities