A meeting of Board of Directors (BoD), Endowment Fund Secretariat, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad on Monday approved setting up a hostel worth Rs 200 million to meet the increasing enrolment at the campus.

The 19thmeeting was held at the Syndicate Room with Prof. Dr. Iqrar Ahmad Khan (SI), the Vice Chancellor, UAF in the chair. Rs 200 million will be spent from the EFS principal amount of Rs 824million. The meeting also approved Rs. 73.5 million budget estimates of the Endowment Fund Secretariat for the financial year 2016-17. The House also proposed progressive farmer Syed Faisal Shah, former PARC chairman Dr. Ehsan Tasneem, DG Extension Punjab Dr. Anjum Ali Butter to become new members of the BoD. Chairing the meeting, the Vice Chancellor said that the University enrolment had surpassed 24000 students. Keeping in view, it is the need of the hour to invest in infrastructure to facilitate the students with modern facilities. He said that two hostels funded by Punjab and Federal Government were also being established at the campus. He also stressed upon the need to conduct tangible research to address the problems of the common man, industry and farming community. He said that the country was blessed with tremendous talents. But we are failing to tap the potential due to unskilled manpower. He also called for promoting the technical education to compete with the rest of the world.While going through the draft manuscript of 10-years report of the Endowment Fund Secretariat, the BoD appreciated the efforts made by EFS during first decade of its inception. The meeting was attended by Agriculture Linkage Programme (ALP) Director Dr. Ahmad Bakhsh Mahar; Prof Dr Zahir Shah nominee of VC Agriculture University Peshawar; EFS Executive Director Prof. Dr. Zahir Ahmad Zahir; Registrar Ch. Muhammad Hussain, and Treasurer Umar Saeed Qadri, and other notables