Initiatives to be taken to promote soft image of SU: vice chancellor

Vice-Chancellor of Sindh University (SU) Professor (Dr) Imdad Ali Ismaili has said the university will take some new initiatives to promote its educational worth and soft image. He assured that the administration will address the 'hardship cases' of employees, officials and faculty members on priority basis, said a news release issued here on Friday.
He held out the assurance while giving away the promotion orders to three assistant professors as associate professors (BPS-20). Dr Aftab Mangi of Public Administration, Zahid Hussain Kazi of Business Administration and Imdad Soomro of Statistics Department got the promotion orders as associate professors in BPS-20 on the basis of hardship cases.
He urged the scholars to play their due role in the development of a research-based culture at campus and design collaborative research projects with industries to benefit the mankind. Dr Ismaili said that the new challenges faced by the society could only be resolved with research-based support of the scholars.
He appreciated the research projects and research activities at national and international level carried out by the various departments and centres as well as educational achievements in the university. "I always think for development of research culture at the university," Dr Ismaili said.
He said in the past due to lack of facilities, funding and lower salary packages for the faculty members, university graduates were avoiding to serving in universities but presently due to attractive salary packages scholars have changed their attitude.
He said that there was a dire need of interaction among scholars of the world and universities and industries. The Higher Education Commission has been paying attention on proper funding and facilities to public sector universities, he said and hoped that the scholars would work for promotion of research activities.
The VC said that the world was moving faster and added that recent developments in computer automation and information technologies have helped analytical industry to initiate a number of new biological fields such as genomics.
He said: "When we make a comparison of the state of science and technology in this global world we find that there are significant social and economic differences between the developed and under developing countries." He said that many underlying causes of these differences were rooted in the long history of development of such nations and social, cultural and economic variables, historical and political elements, international relations and geographical factors.
Differences in the scientific and technological infrastructure and in the popularisation of science and technology in the two groups of countries are the most important cases of differentials in social and economic levels, Dr Ismaili said.