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Land donated for Urdu University

HYDERABAD: Appreciating the efforts by Maulana Azad National Urdu University in promoting Urdu as medium of education at higher and technical levels, Fouzia Tahseen Ahmed, MLC of Maharashtra, has donated 5 acres of land at Aurangabad for the University to develop off-campus educational complex.

Ms. Fouzia, who is a well known philanthropist in the Marathwada region, visited the MANUU Campus at Gachibowli yesterday and appreciated the university activities.

Pro Vice-Chancellor and Director, Distance Education, Prof. K. R. Iqbal Ahmed, briefed her about various campus based and distance courses offered by the University.

He informed that University proposed to start B.Ed. and Polytechnic colleges besides a model school at Aurangabad Campus.

MANUU also planned to start some vocational courses at Parbhani district of Marathwada, which has a sizeable Urdu speaking population, according to a press release.

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