HEC allocates Rs 20 million to set up archaeology museum

The Higher Education Commission of Pakistan has allocated Rs 20 million for Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Sindh to establish an Archaeology and Anthropology Museum. The teaching-cum-recreational museum will display a representative collection, illustrating the arts, crafts and cultures of the country from early human occupation down to recent times. It would include a gallery of village life and ancient traditional crafts of all regions and present an ethnographic view of the dying cultures.
The museum will provide information to general public, scholars and foreigners in matter relating to country's heritage. It would have well-equipped chemical and conservation laboratory for the treatment and preservation of metals, stone, potter, bones etc
The museum would serve the scholars, students and general public and the department of Archaeology at the Shah Latif University with trained staff on scientific lines.
UET Lahore: Meanwhile, the Higher Education Commission will provide Rs 35 million to strengthen the department of Metallurgical and Material Engineering at the university of Engineering and Technology, Lahore.
The university will use the funds to establish three laboratories for research and experiments in mechanical processing and casting metals, establishing a lab for conducting research for under graduate practical in the field of plastics, ceramics and composite.
Strengthening the labs of the departments of Metallurgical and materials engineering will enable the department to enhance the liaison between the department and industry.
The department has already been engaged in providing consultancy to Sui- Northern Gas Pipeline, Millat Tractors and auto industry, steel making units in Lahore and pipe-manufacturing vendors of the defence industry.
The new labs will also be equipped with the modern laboratory facilities. About 200 under graduate students and 20 MSc and Ph.D. research scholars will benefit every year. The HEC hoped that the new research and development of engineering materials would be utilised by the local industry.