By TwoCircles.net news desk,
Patna: Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis has appointed an advisory committee consisting prominent alumni of the university seeking their help for five off-campus centres. The alumni had appreciated the decision of the university to open the centres in five different places in the country and also expressed their desire to contribute their lot in making those centres of world class excellence.
The committee of AMU old boys comprises Dr. Masood Akhtar of Middletown, USA, Engineer Nadeem Akhtar Tareen, Riyadh (KSA), Mr. Zaigham Khan, KSA, Mr. Ameer Ahmad, Group Managing Director of Teejan Group of Companies, Sultanate of Oman, Mr. Faisal Saleem, USA, Mr. Ali Rizvi, President, Federation of AMU Alumni Associations of USA, Mr. M A A Fatmi, former Minister of State for HRD, Mr. Khwaja Mohammad Shahid, New Delhi, Mr. Safdar H. Khan, Senior General Manager, Trade Fair Authority of India, New Delhi, Mr. Syed Hasan Kamal of USA, Mr. Frank Islam, Chairman and CEO, FI Investment Group, LLC, USA and Prof. Javed Musarrat of DNA Research Chair of King Saud University, Riyadh (KSA).
The committee will collect suggestions from AMU alumni from across the world through various networks for establishing the centres and preparing a framework for academic activities there.
It has also been given responsibility to approve courses that AMU should offer at these new centres and identify potential mentors and collaborators for various programs.
Vice Chancellor, Prof. Azis expressed hope that the committee would submit its report by December 15, 2009 and AMU would organize a national level brain storming session in New Delhi to discuss this report. The university would give its best of consideration to the emerging ideas and would be placing it before the statutory bodies of the University for taking a final view and develop a vision plan for new campuses.
The members of Advisory Committee will meet on October 14, 2009 in a program to be held at India Islamic Cultural Centre, New Delhi to make a plan to carry out the responsibilities that have been given to them.