HYDERABAD, June 7: Khurram Butt of the NGO Resource Centre, Aga Khan Foundation, Karachi, has urged fresh university graduates to enter social welfare organizations for community development.

He was delivering a lecture on orientation of citizens' sector, organized by the department of public management sciences, University of Sindh, on Monday. Mr Butt said that the Agha Khan Foundation was conducting one month and eight weeks training programmes for fresh candidates to encourage them to participate in community development process.

He maintained that the role of the government in fields of education, health and security was very important but citizens's participation in community development was equally important.

He stressed the need for joint efforts by public and private sectors, NGOs and civil society in community development. Mr Butt called for more investment by the government in the education sector.

Vice-chancellor Mazharul Haq Siddiqui, who presided over the function, Dr Rafia Ahmad Shaikh, dean, faculty of social sciences, and Prof Mohammad Yousuf Pardesi, chairman, department of public management sciences, also spoke on the occasion.

POSITION HOLDERS: The controller of examinations, University of Sindh, on Monday announced names of position holders in B.A. (hons), part-III, economics, semester examinations.

Mohammad Saleem, son of Abdullah Butt, secured the first position, Erum, daughter of Khushnood Zahid Shaikh, secured second and Mohammad Ayub, son of Allah Dino Rajpar, secured the third position.

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