NIM Delegation Visits UAF

FAISALABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Apr, 2018 ) ::A ten-member delegation of participants of the 23rd Mid-Career Management Course (MCMC) comprising senior civil officers from National Institute of Management (NIM), Monday visited the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF).

The delegation members held a meeting with senior management of the institution to explore new information about research and development activities of the seat of higher learning. Director, Office of Research, Innovations and Commercialisation (ORIC) Prof Dr Zahir Ahmad Zahir briefed the visitors at the syndicate room.

He said that the university was undertaking more than 455 projects worth Rs2.44 billion and addressing various aspects of agriculture and economic issues.

He said that out of total 32 faculty development projects of Higher education Commission (HEC), the university scientists with a lion's share of 11 projects are working with people from industry to come up with such a technology that could be commercialised.

He told the participants that out of top 10 productive scientists of the country, four were from the UAF. He said that the UAF had published 27 multi-author books on the confronting issues of the national importance.

Later senior professor Dr Zafar Iqbal Randhawa handed over a UAF memento to Dr Faheem Jehangir Khan, Directing Staff (Research) of National Institute of Management. APP/aar/ia/rsd