By IndiaTomorrow.net,
Baramulla, 11 August 2015: For the educational upliftment of the underprivileged section of the society, a team of students from the prestigious Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on 9 August 2015, Sunday, began a career awareness programme called “PAHEL,” with the help of “SOCH – Beyond the Imagination,” a social organisation run by the AMU students, in different schools of Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Under the initiative, the PAHEL team will provide career counselling as well as information about scholarships for students after the 10th and 12th standard.
Dr Saleem Mohammad Khan of SOCH said, “The team will provide information regarding the entrance exams of different central universities such as AMU, Benaras Hindu University, Jamia Millia Islamia and Jawaharlal Nehru University. Several school authorities also assured us they will provide their students with this information.”
The PAHEL team said there will be a chain of follow-up programmes too, in different higher secondary schools in the future. Launching a students’ helpline number, the organisers said students/schools can contact the team any time. “Students or schools can reach us at the phone number 09622669330,” the organisers assured.
Dr Khan of SOCH said, “This year’s UPSC ranks from 1 to 4 have been secured by female students. So it is time we encourage female students of the community to opt for civil services.”
Dr Danish Suhail of the team said the initiative PAHEL will not be limited to Kashmir only but also a pan-India movement will be started soon to fulfil their social duty as an “Alig.”
AMU, the first Muslim university in India and a public university funded by the Indian central government, was originally established by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan as the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875. The Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College was later renamed as the Aligarh Muslim University in 1920. According to a Wikipedia entry, the Times Higher Education Asia gave AMU the third rank among universities in India in 2014.
