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PU signs MoU to provide scholarships to female students
PU signs MoU to provide scholarships to female students


LAHORE: (Friday, August 21, 2020): Punjab University and Momina Cheema Foundation have signed a memorandum of understanding for financial assistance of deserving female students. In this regard, an agreement was signed at the Vice Chancellor’s office in which PU VC Prof Niaz Ahmad, Col (r) Shaukat Cheema, Deputy Director Planning & Development Muhammad Ahmad Sheikh, Deputy Registrar Hafiz Abdul Qayyum and others were present on the occasion. Under the agreement, an institutional scholarship award committee would be constituted and a call for applications for scholarships would be advertised on the website of the university. The committee would follow merit and need based scholarship criteria for selection of needy female students. The purpose of this MoU is to encourage and support deserving female students who are struggling to pursue higher education while they are facing difficulties in bearing various expenditures.