UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Madanjeet Singh reiterated the SAF offer to fund group scholarships to students selected by SAU

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News New Delhi - 24th October 2008

At a meeting with Prof G K Chadha, recently appointed CEO of the proposed SAARC University, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Madanjeet Singh reiterated the SAF offer, he had made earlier to Foreign Secretary, Mr Shivshankar Menon, to fund group scholarships to students selected by South Asia University (SAU).

The Group Scholarship programme is among the most successful SAF projects in which students from all SAARC countries, based on gender parity, study together at SAF institutions of excellence. In India, the programme was launched in 2002, at the Asian College of Journalism ( ACJ), Chennai, and also at the School of Visual Arts, Beaconhouse National University (BNU), Lahore, Pakistan. Following a MoU signed between SAF, the government of Afghanistan and UNESCO in 2002, the Madanjeet Singh Institute of Afghanistan’s Cultural Heritage was opened in Kabul in 2007. Two more SAF institutions of excellence have since been inaugurated in 2008 - the Institute of Kashmir Studies, Srinagar, and the Advanced legal and Human Rights Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh. In all, SAF has signed eight MoUs for the establishment of institution of excellence in SAARC countries.