Professor Dr Nusrat Jahan, the former chairperson of Government College University (GCU) Lahore Zoology Department, has donated rupees one million to the University's Endowment Fund Trust (GCU-EFT) for the scholarships of the financially-challenged orphan students. Professor Nusrat Jahan handed over the donation cheque to Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Hassan Amir Shah at a graceful ceremony at GCU, which was also attended by EFT Executive Committee Secretary Dr Khalid Manzoor Butt.

The Trust would initiate a perpetual golden scholarship from the donation which would be given to an orphan student every year on merit and would fully cover his/her university fee and hostel dues. Earlier, a few months ago, an 82-year-old eminent poet and distinguished professor of Persian language, Professor Dr Zaheer Ahmed Siddique, had set a highly inspiring precedent of generosity, by donating his approximately Rs 140 million land and Rs five million lifetime cash savings to the GCU-EFT for the scholarships of financially-challenged students.

Speaking on the occasion, Vice Chancellor Professor Shah said that the world over nations had progressed by the mean of developing their universities and research institutes. He said that Professor Zaheer Siddique and Professor Nusrat Jahan had set a precedent which, he hoped, "other would also follow."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2017