Thirty Eight students suspended from AMU

ALIGARH, May 10: AMU Vice Chancellor, Prof. P.K. Abdul Azis has ordered to place 38 students under suspension from the rolls of the university with immediate effect pending enquiry. He further ordered to place university campus and its maintained institutions out of bond for them. He said that those who are not on the rolls of the University but were involved in the incidence of group clash and firing in the University premises and outside causing the closure of the University sine-die on April 30, are to be subjected to appropriate legal action as per the law of the land.

The disciplinary action has been taken in view of the facts and circumstances prima facie established. These thirty-eight students have reportedly committed acts of misconduct and indiscipline as provided under AMU Students’ Conduct and Discipline Rules 1985.

Dr. S.S. Ahmed of AMU attended the seminar on Advances in Orbital and periorbital trauma management held at Mumbai

Dr. S.S. Ahmed, Chairman, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Dr. Z. A. Dental College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh said that Orbital trauma is common after road traffic accidents and if its diagnosis is missed or not treated properly, it may lead to functional disability and cosmetic disfigurement. He was addressing a seminar on Advances in Orbital and periorbital trauma management held at Mumbai.

The seminar was organized by Asia Pacific Division of AOCMF. The maxillofacial surgeons, plastic surgeons and ophthalmic surgeons from various parts of India participated in the seminar. The aim of the event was to make the participants aware of the current and tested treatment concepts in Cranio-maxillofacial practice in general and orbital and periorbital trauma management in particular. Dr. Ahmad said that management of orbital trauma and recent techniques of reconstruction of orbital bony skeleton, reposition of soft tissues in such injuries and restoring the function of orbital and peri-orbital tissue were discussed in this seminar.

Dr. Ahmed told that his participation in the programme would not only benefit the patients but also the postgraduate students in the department who are actively involved in the treatment of maxillofacial injuries.

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AMU to Re-open on 13th May 2011, instead of 18th May 2011.

ALIGARH May 9: The Aligarh Muslim University has decided that now the University will be reopening few days earlier on May 13, 2011 and the hostel facilities to final year B. Tech and all final year students of other faculties will be made available from May 13 itself. Earlier the University had notified May 16 as the date of reopening in a phased manner. The examination of all these courses will commence from May 18, 2011.

The decision was taken in a consultative meeting with all the Provost, Officiating Registrar, DSW, Proctor and Controller of Examinations chaired by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis.

The Vice Chancellor urged the Provosts and their team to play an important role and dining hall facilities should be provided to the students from the day one of its opening.

Prof. Azis said that Honorary Secretary of AMU Teachers’ Association and the Dean, Faculty of Engineering & Technology had requested sufficient time for students to prepare the examinations scheduled to commence on May 18,2011. He said that he has consulted the Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Technology and Controller of Examinations and the decision to pre-pone the re-opening was taken keeping in view the interest of the students. It was decided to open the University from May 13, 2011 for B. Tech. Final Year students and the students of Final Semester of all other Faculties as well.

The University has also decided to provide accommodation to all internal boys at Allama Iqbal Hall and all internal girls at the Abdullah Hall who are appearing in the entrance tests of B. Tech/B. Arch on the production of admit card. The test is slated for May 14, 2011. The B. Sc. I year and II year students who are appearing in the test for B. Tech will also be accommodated in their respective halls of residence on production of admit card.

The matter relating to hostel facilities to the research scholars will be decided shortly in the meeting of the Deans of Faculties.

The meeting also decided that the halls of residence will be opened for Pre-final/II Semester students on May 21, 2011.

The Vice Chancellor has requested all the faculty members to render their services for invigilation duty to conduct the admission tests in a peaceful and orderly manner.

Summer Vacations Declared: Approved by the Academic Council

The Aligarh Muslim University Vice-Chancellor, Prof. P.K. Abdul Azis, on behalf of the Academic Council, has approved the Summer Vacations for the year 2011 in the University and its maintained institutions including University Schools to be observed from 1st June to 31st July 2011.

The Summer Vacations in the Faculty of Medicine shall be observed in two halves of 38 days each for teaching staff from 17.05.2011 to 23.06.2011 and from 24.06.2011 to 31.07.2011. The summer vacations for MBBS students (Final Prof. Part-II Batch-2007), MBBS (Final Prof. Part-I Batch-2008) and MBBS (II Prof. Batch-2009) will start from 11th June to 30th June while MBBS (I Prof. Batch-2010) will start from 10th July to 31st July.

The summer vacations for the students of BDS First year Batch-2010 and Second year Batch 2009 will start from 12th July to 31st July 2011 while for the students of BDS Third year Batch-2008 the vacations will start from 21st June to 10 July and for BDS Final year Batch 2007, it will start from 1st June to 20th June.

The summer vacations for the Faculty of Unani Medicine will be notified later.

AMU Re-Opens after Sine - Die (Official Notice)

ALIGARH May 5: The Aligarh Muslim University will be reopening on May 16, 2011 in a phased manner. The hostel facilities for B. Tech Final year and all final semester students of other faculties will be provided from May 16, 2011 while the examinations for these students will commence from May 18, 2011.

The decision was taken in a meeting of the Deans of faculties and Principals of Colleges chaired by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis.

The meeting noted with appreciation that classes have been completed in all faculties except Faculty of Medicine and there has been no tuitional loss due to sine die declared on April 30, 2011.

The meeting also decided that postgraduate degree and diploma exmainatons in the Faculty of Medicine will be held as per the schedule already announced.

The University has decided that the halls of residence will be opened for Prefinal/ II Semester on May 21, 2011 and the examination will start from May 23, 2011. For all other courses hostel facilities will be provided on May 23, 2011 and examinations will start from May 25, 2011.

It was decided that the departmental admission tests schedule already announced will be strictly adhered to.

The University has also decided that the class IX Entrance Test will be held on May 25, 2011.

It was also resolved that Deans of concerned faculties will submit the complete examination schedule for their faculties so that it can be notified on the University website.

The Principal, University Polytechnic informed that the I Year theory papers are over in Polytechnic. However, practical examinations are left. He proposed that these practical exams be held in the month of July 2011 to avoid inconvenience to the students.

It was also noted that the second semester in the Faculty of Management Studies and Research and Faculty of Commerce examinations will be held in the month of July 2011 as these students have currently gone on practical training.

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Two Day National Seminar on Scientific Support in Sports from, January 30-31, 2011 at AMU Aligarh

ALIGARH, January 18: Department of Physical Health and Sports Education Aligarh Muslim University is organizing a two-day National Seminar on Scientific Support in Sports from, January 30-31, 2011 under the Special Assistance Programme of University Grant Commission.


Dr. Zamirullah Khan, Organizing Secretary said that in sports arena the human potential through traditional training pedagogies has been explored to its maximum possible limits. He further said that the onwards barriers can only be pushed-forth through the scientific support especially from allied sciences. Sports scientists also believe that applied sciences such as sports medicine, exercise physiology, physiotherapy, sports sociology, nutritional sciences, kinesiology and many more obviously can richly contribute to performance but over and above the contribution of sports psychology and biomechanics will remain unparalleled in the years to come.


Dr. Zamirullah added that these viewpoints of the Department of Physical Health and Sports Education under the University Grant Commission’s SAP DRS-I programme is organizing National Seminar on Scientific Support in Sports. This seminar is an effort to bring together the physical education teachers, sports scientists, coaches, researchers and sports performers to share their ideas, experiences and research inputs for the enhancement of performance.

Prof. Jaowad Ali is the Director of Seminar and Coordinator UGC-SAP, DRS-I Programme and Prof. Ikram Hussain, Chairman of the Department is Deputy Coordinator UGC- SAP, DRS-I Programme. Around 300 delegated are expected to participate in this Seminar.

AMU VC Appreciates the Election Compaign

ALIGARH January 18: Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis, Vice Chancellor, Aligarh Muslim University has expressed his great appreciation for the matured way the students have carried forward the campaign for election of the AMU Students’ Union.



He appealed to the students to maintain the same behavior and decorum to complete the election process in a remarkably model manner. AMU Vice Chancellor said that the University is showing an excellent example as the AMU has become the first University amongst the central universities who have conducted the election of the Students’ Union on Lyngdoh Committee recommendations under the Supreme Court order.



He hoped that the new Union office bearers will be partner in the growth and expansion of the University in the coming decade.

Silver Jubilee function of Re-Union 85 batch of MBBS, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, AMU was celebrated

ALIGARH, December 28: The Silver Jubilee function of Re-Union 85 batch of MBBS, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University was celebrated in the Medical College premises. In the morning “Meet-the-teachers” programme was organized. The audience included retired teachers, current senior teachers and the alumni of 85th Batch who came from far and wide like USA, UK, UAE and different places of India.


In his welcome address Dr. Afzal Anees, Reader, Department of Surgery emphasized that this reunion is between the members of 85 batch and the alma matter and the reunion would strengthen the teacher-pupil relationship.

Prof. Mehdi Hasan, Retired Professor of Anatomy, JNMC was the Chief Guest on this occasion. Dean Faculty of Medicine, Prof. S. Abrar Hasan, Principal and CMS Prof. Ashraf Malik and the senior and retired teachers were overwhelmed with the love and affection demonstrated by the doctors of 85th Batch. While addressing the audience, the Chief Guest said that students are my strength. Appreciating the spirit behind organization of this function he said that he had attended such a function for the first time. Dr. Namrata Bhardwaj, Gynaechologist proposed a vote of thanks.

Two day National Seminar on ‘Conflict in South and West Asia at AMU

ALIGARH, December 21: Inaugurating a two day National Seminar on ‘Conflict in South and West Asia was organized by the Centre of West Asian Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Former Indian Ambassador to Bangladesh, Prof. Veena Seekri emphasized the role of people to people contact as a way for resolving conflicts. She was of the opinion that in today’s globalised world, people to people diplomacy is playing an important role in international relations. In the new media and communication regime, this form of diplomacy challenges general understanding and practice of foreign policy issues. In this scenario, the concept of “people to people contact” can create new opportunities and avenues. Giving various examples from Bangladesh where she served as High Commissioner she further emphasized that track two diplomacy deals with the influence of public attitudes on the formation and execution of foreign policies.

The AMU Vice Chancellor, Prof. P.K. Abdul Azis in his residential remarks discussed the issues of conflict resolution with reference to West Asian region. To him the Arab – Israel conflict is the result of the failure of the on the part of the western powers to understand the issues in right perspective. He very categorically stated that the emergence of Israel as an independent nation in 1948 has not been accepted by the Arab World which views it as an American imposition. The conflict in Iraq has further compounded the ever growing conflicts & tensions in the region. He also spoke about Indian foreign policy posture over Palestine issue and emphasized that the problem can only be resolved taking into consideration the various factor ranging from sociological root of conflict; conflict caused by the “state system”, and regional case studies.

Prof. Girjesh Pant, Vice Chancellor, Doon University, Dehradun, in his key note address discussed at length about the dimensions of the Palestinian – Israeli battle, the two gulf war (Iraq-Iran and the Kuwait war), Lebanon, the Kurds and the rise of political Islam in the context of governance and state building in the West Asia. He shows his concern that as an academician all these occurrences demand explanations, historical records and often compelling perspectives in terms of explaining why collapse into violence has occurred in such contexts. He was however, optimistic that despite repeated setbacks and failures, and despite negative trends the course of peace-making in the two regions has also seen several breakthroughs in avoiding wars and-resolving some of their conflicts.

Dr. Javed Iqbal, Convener of the Seminar in his address emphasized that the purpose for organizing this conference is to understand the dynamics of the issues involved the conflict in terms of issues of terrorism, ethnic and religious discord; the surge of extremist religious elements; and the encouragement of local conflicts by the regimes in power. The purpose is to address to the causes in terms of explaining why collapse into violence has occurred in such contexts Given these facts, the task of peace-making in the West and South Asia has had repeated setbacks and failures. He wished that the discussions in the seminar would go a long way towards meeting such a need.


While welcoming the guests and fellow participants those included diplomats, policy makers and scholars from academia , Prof. Mohammad Gulrez , Chairman -Organizing Committee emphasized that from the decolonization to the present day these two regions have witnessed the outbreak of wars; foreign involvement; successful and aborted peace processes; the adoption of military and non-military confidence-building measures (CBMs); terrorism, ethnic and religious discord; the surge of extremist religious elements; and the encouragement of local conflicts by the regimes in power.

He further emphasized that in this kind of conflict the human costs are high and are borne  principally by the civilian population- civilians make more than 90 percent of the causalities in the post cold war conflicts globally. There are also the political costs of the demolition of the democratic system and even the disintegration of states. Efforts to create a lasting peace have a deal with all these kinds of problems.




The vote of thanks was proposed by Prof. CPS Chauhan, Dean Faculty of Social Sciences, the seminar was attended by large number of faculty members, students and invited participants.

Training for strengthening implementation of Bal Swasthya Poshan Mah (A UNICEF Project)

ALIGARH, December 21: The Department of Community Medicine, J.N. Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University carried out a block level training of workers of Health and Integrated Development of Child Services (ICDS) Scheme was carried out in Sitapur and Lakhimpur Kheri districts of Uttar Pradesh for December-2010 round. Nearly 2500 workers in 08 Blocks were trained on various aspects of promotion of Maternal and Child Health, Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices Vitamin A Prophylaxis and Promotion of Iodized salt in the community. Participants included Lady Health Visitors (LHV), Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANM), Basic Health Workers (BHW) of Health Department and Supervisors, Anganwadi Workers of ICDS Department and ASHA working under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). Training sessions were conducted by Dr. M. Athar Ansari, Nodal Person, BSPM Scheme, Prof. Zulfia Khan, Dr. Abdur Razzaque Siddiqui and Dr. S.N.A. Hashmi, State Level Trainers.

The Department of Community Medicine has been working on a project “Strengthening implementation of Child Health Nutrition Months/Bal Swasthaya Poshan Mah (BSPM) in UP” The Project is sponsored by UNICEF.

Prof. Syed Manazir Ali, Chairman, Department of Paediatrics, adjudged as the best President among all district branches of Indian Academy of Paediatrics, U.P. State 2010.

Prof. Syed Manazir Ali, Chairman, Department of Paediatrics, J.N. Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University has been adjudged as the best President among all district branches of Indian Academy of Paediatrics, U.P. State 2010.

This honour is conferred in recognition of his contribution in the field of Neo-Natal branch of Paediatrics. Prof. Ali is also the National Trainer of infant and young child feeding, comprehensive child survival programme and facility based new born care.

Aligarh Muslim University Students called off Dharna

ALIGARH December 20: The agitating students of the Aligarh Muslim University called off their dharna yesterday night following a discussion between the students sitting on dharna and the university administration.

In a meeting between fourteen students and the university administration consisted of Registrar, Prof. V.K. Abdul Jaleel, Controller of Exams and Admission, Prof. Pervez Mustajab and OSD (Development), Prof. Akhtar Haseeb yesterday evening.

It was resolved that election process of the AMU Students’ Union will be started from 3^rd January 2011, as already announced. The election of the Students’ Union shall be held as per Lyngdoh Committee Recommendations and the Supreme Court’s order in letter and spirit.

It was also decided that the election of representatives of the University Court will also be held along with AMU Students’ Union election. Every bonafide student is allowed to participate in the elections of the AMU Court.

The suspension of five students involved in the dharna was revoked yesterday. These were Mohd. Ibraheem, Mr. Adeel Ahmad, Mr. Syed Umar Ahamd Qadri, Mr. Mohd. Osama Shamsi and Mr. Mushtaq Ahmad.

The process in negotiation carried out with the involvement of Mr. Basheer Kunnail, a very senior old boy and Mr. Irshad Ahmed, Member of the University Court.

The District Magistrate, Mr. Ravindra Naik, the Senior Superintendent of Police, Mr. Satendra Veer Singh, Additional District Magistrate, Mr. C.P. Singh and Superintendent of Police, Mr. M.S. Chauhan played a very positive role in resolving the issue.

AMU Vice Chancellor, Professor P.K. Abdul Azis thanked them for maintaining law and order in the campus. He also thanked the students for agreeing to end the dharna and for creating peaceful academic environment in the campus.

By 11 pm in the late night, the Vice Chancellor, Professor P.K. Abdul Azis along with the District Magistrate, Senior Superintendent of Police, AMU Registrar, Controller Examination & Admission, Dean Students’ Welfare, OSD (Development), Additional District Magistrate (City) and Superintendent of Police (City) went to the dharna site and addressed the students together with the students representatives.

AMU Vice Chancellor, Professor P.K. Abdul Azis said, “we all should start a new chapter in AMU by becoming partners in regaining the glory of this institution”. He further said that the Students’ Union is being restored with a great hope that its activity will create a ‘union of hearts and minds’ in the AMU campus and we all live like ‘one family’.

The District Magistrate, Mr. Ravindra Naik, the Senior Superintendent of Police, Mr. Satendra Veer Singh, students Mr. Mushtaq Ahmad and others also addressed the gathering.

Vice Chancellor entered his Lodge after 78 days along with some students and the University Officials.

Meeting of AMU Court postponed

ALIGARH December 17: The President of India, in her capacity as the Visitor of the Aligarh Muslim University, has directed the University “to keep the meeting of the University Court in abeyance”.

The Visitor has issued a show cause notice under Section 13(6) of the Aligarh Muslim University At, 1920 regarding holding of the meeting of the University Court on December 19, 2010.

It has been brought to the notice of the Visitor by members of the Court of Aligarh Muslim University and the stakeholders that the meeting of the Court is scheduled to be held on December 19, 2010 with important agenda to elect Chancellor, Pro-chancellor, Treasurer and six representatives to the Executive Council of the University, without fulfilling the statutory requirement of the minimum notice period of 35 days.

The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India has said that the University shall bring this notice to the attention of all the members of the Court at once so as to avoid any inconvenience to them. The University has been directed to reply to the above show cause notice within a period of 15 days for consideration of the Visitor.

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ALIGARH December 15: The University Extension Lecture, Aligarh Muslim University organized an Interactive Session for the research scholars of the University with Dr. Nabiha Yousuf, Assistant Professor, Dermatology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA at the Centre of Excellence in Material Science (Nanomaterials), department of Applied Physics, Zakir Husain College of Engineering and Technology, AMU.

Dr. Nabiha urged the students to clear GRE and TOEFL (Test of English as Foreign Language) if they wished to go to USA for higher studies. She stressed there should be a GRE Coaching in AMU. However, she stressed that students might pursue PhD in Aligarh Muslim University as the quality of research being carried away here is quite high and at par with international standard. She said that interested students could have a detail of institutions offering research at www.gradschools.com.

Dr. Nabiha exhorted the students to pursue research in interdisciplinary areas such as health sector, Nursing, Respiratory Therapy, Optometry, Biomedical Engineering and Nanotoxicology.

Earlier, Professor Alim Husain Naqvi, Coordinator, Centre of Excellence in Material Science (Nanomaterials) welcomed the guest and introduced her to the audience. He said Dr. Nabiha Yousuf is an alumnus of the Aligarh Muslim University. She did PhD from Department of Biochemistry, JNMC in 1999.

Prof. Imtiaz Hasnain, Coordinator, University Extension Lecture was also present in the programme.

J. N. Medical College Blood Bank Ranked Number 1 in UP

ALIGARH December 7: The Blood Bank and Blood Component Separation Unit of
J.N. Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University has been ranked number one
in the State of Uttar Pradesh. The Director General of U.P.S.A.C. Blood Bank
Division has informed the Principal and Chief Medical Superintendent,
Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Prof. M. Ashraf Malik that the ranking has
been made on the basis of performance index on a scale of 0 to 5 where J.N.
Medical College Hospital Blood Bank has achieved the performance index of
4.7 in different categories. The categories are (1) Procurement and storage
of sufficient amount of Blood Units in one year (2) Number of voluntary
donation camps held during last year (3) The amount of Blood Units collected
during the Blood Camps donation.

The Director General of NACO, Mr. S.P. Goel has congratulated the
institution and has requested that these efforts should be continued as a
model for other Blood Banks in the State. Dr. Goel has also informed about
this achievement and congratulated the District Magistrate of Aligarh
regarding this.

Prof. Ashraf Malik said that the Blood Component Separation Unit of the
Blood Bank became functional after receiving the license in February 2010.
Presently, the Blood Component Separation Unit is equipped with state of the
art machinery, including two cryo-centrifuges platelet incubator and
agitator, plasma and cryo bath, plasma separator, sterile connecting device,
tube sealers, freezers (80°C and 40°C) for plasma storage, automated
gomixers and donor station. The components being produced for consumption
within the hospital as well as supply to other hospitals are (1) Packed RBC
(2) Platelets and (3) Fresh frozen plasma.

Dr. Moinuddin's Poster adjudged as Best Research Poster

ALIGARH, November 19: Dr. Moinuddin, Lecturer, Department of Biochemistry, J.N. Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University was adjudged as Best Research Poster in the category “Non Clinical” at the State Level Bio-Medical Research Competition organized as a part of Academic Centenary Year Celebration of Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University (CSMMU), Lucknow.


Dr. Muinuddin was given the award on his research paper titled “Catechol-estrogen modified DNA: A better Antigen for Cancer autoantibody” published in Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics (Journal) in 2007.

The CSMMU, Lucknow organized a State Level Biomedical Research Competition, as part of the Academic Centenary Year Celebrations for the competition inviting faculties from different medical institutions of the State to submit research paper that were published in a peer reviewed journal during the last five year. The organizers selected two papers in each category, viz., Clinical Medicine, Clinical Surgery and Non-Clinical subjects from each participating institution. Dr. Moinuddin’s paper qualified the two evaluation rounds and was finally selected for the award in the ‘non-clinical’ category.

The award certificates were given by Prof. S.K. Sarin, Chairman, Board of Governors, MCI who also declared Gold Medals by the Medical Council of India (MCI) for the award winning Faculty.

Dr. Moinuddin is presently working as Lecturer and has supervised four Ph.Ds and two MD theses. He has also worked in four major projects besides publishing over twenty five research papers in the national as well as international journals. He has attended several national as well as international conferences.

Faculty Toppers from M.M. Hall were awarded cash prize (Sponsored by Dr. Hasan Tahir), a memento and a certificate

*ALIGARH, November 19: *Faculty Toppers from M.M. Hall were awarded a cash


prize of Rs. 2500/­each, a memento and a certificate of excellence. Dr. S.

Hasan Tahir, Scientist, California, USA, an alumnus of Chemistry department

sponsored the award and was the Chief Guest on the occasion. The awardees

were – Mr. Md. Saddam Husain Ansari, B.Tech., Mr. Wasiullah, BA, Mr. Md.

Mawoon Khan, MCA, and Mr. Peerzada Raouf Ahmad, BA (Final).


Dr. Tahir urged the faculty toppers to go for even greater heights in future

and continue to work hard. They must always think high.


Prof. Abdul Aleem, Department of Hindi also attended the programme as Guest

of Honour and gave away certificates.

Dr. Suhail Sabir, Provost of the Hall welcomed the Chief Guest and thanked

Dr. Tahir for generously awarding the residents of M.M. Hall, consecutively

for the last two years. Mr. Gufran Ahmad, Warden Incharge, Career

Counseling Cell, thanked everyone present on this occasion. Dr. Ikram Javed,

Dr. Mohd. Younus Ali Khan, Er. M. Rizwanur Rehman Khan, Dr. M. Shamim, all

wardens and a large number of students attended the programme. Programme was

conducted ­by Mr. Sabahuddin, Joint Secretary, Literary Society of the Hall.

Three-day International Conference on Contribution of India and Indian Sub-continent in Irani Language and Literature held by the Department of Persian

ALIGARH November 16: The Ambassador of Afghanistan to India, Mr. Samim Hamraz inaugurated three-day International Conference on Contribution of India and Indian Sub-continent in Irani Language and Literature held by the Department of Persian, Aligarh Muslim University.

In his inaugural lecture, Mr. Hamraz while appreciating India’s contribution to Persian language spanning over 800 years underlined the important contributions made by eminent Persian scholars like Prof. Nazeer Ahmad, Prof. Amir Hasan Abidi, Prof. Abdul Wadood Azhar and Prof. Azarmi Dukht Safavi etc. He said that Embassy of Afghanistan in India will continue its efforts for the development of Persian language.

The Director of Iran Culture House in India, Dr. Ali Dahgai and Cultural and Educational Consultant of Afghanistan, Prof. Abdul Khaliq recalled old relations between India, Afghanistan and Iran.

In his keynote address, Secretary of All India Persian Teacher’s Association, Prof. Abdul Wadood Azhar discussed use of the Persian language in the different departments in Indian. Prof. Qazi Afzal Husain, Dean, Arts Faculty also expressed his views on the issue.

Earlier, Director of Persian Research Center, Prof. Azarmi Dukht Safavi welcomed the guests. She elaborated on the development and progress of Persian language and literature from Ghaznavi period to present times.

Chairman of the Persian Department, Prof. Mohd. Asif Naim Siddiqui highlighted the aim of the seminar. He also read out presidential address of former Pro-Chancellor Nawab Rahmatullah Khan Sherwani in his absence. The programme was conducted by Dr. Mohd. Usman Ghani.