Department of Environmental Sciences, Abdul Wali
Khan University Mardan (AWKUM) participated in “Sanitation Festival” organized
on the eve of World Toilet Day on the 19th of November, 2016 at the
University of Peshawar. Dr. Farhan and Dr. Shams represented AWKUM along with the
graduate students. Local Government and Rural Development Department of KPK under
its outreach services (WatSan Cell) arranged this festival along with sector
partners including UNICEF, IRC, WSSP, RSPs, etc. The day long activities
include project presentation, NGO stalls of innovative WASH project, demonstration
and poster presentation. Dr. Shams Ali Baig presented the outcomes of his
research findings during the poster presentation session. Dr. Noor Muhammad,
Dean of UET Peshawar was the chief guest at the opening session and Mr. Shoukat
Yousufzai, Minister KPK Government was the chief guest at the closing session.
The Minister highly appreciated the efforts of making academia-development
sector linkages in delivering research based services to community. He further
emphasized that the development sector across the Province should invite
academic institutions in such event, which helps the students to know the real
field based issues and thoroughly investigate to cater the problem while
conducting researches.
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