Vol. No.

5769

campusnews@uaf.edu.pk

Dated: 19-03-2013

SITUATION VACANT
Applications are invited from Pakistani nationals for the appointment of one Research Associate @ Rs. 39,000/- per month for one
year, qualification; M.Phil. (Parasitology) with minimum CGPA 3.0/4.0, currently enrolled in PhD Parasitology in in the research project
entitled Arthropod Functional Genomics Initiative: Building Community Resources for Animal Health funded under Pak-US Science
and Technology Cooperation Program. The applications may be submitted on a plain paper accompanied y attested copies of
certificates/testimonials/CNIC/Domicile and a latest photograph. Applications should be submitted to Prof. Dr. Zafar Iqbal, PI,
Department of Parasitology, UAF within 6 days after the publication of this notice. Candidates already in service must apply through
proper channel by the due date. PI has the right not to fill the post without assigning any reason.
FARMING BUSINESS HEAD REQUIRED
A leading national company requires a PhD (Agriculture) candidate to head their Farming Business. The candidate must be able to
handle all the issues pertaining to the management of a Farm. The board salary package details are given and are negotiable. The
package will be gross salary of approx Rs. 200,000/- , company car, accommodation at the farm, medical allowance equal to 1 month's
salary, is available per year to employee & his/ her immediate family i.e. spouse & dependent children. Medical insurance available to
same as above. This is just an idea of the package that will be offered. Please also note that the candidate will have a great opportunity
as far as his/her development is concerned, as the company will regularly be sending him/her to the most advanced countries in this
respective field. Interested candidates can register themselves at Career Services Office, Directorate of Financial Assistance &
University Advancement, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. Ph. 041-9200351, 0321-661291, E-mail: managercs@uaf.edu.pk office
no later than 25th March, 2013 till 03:30 pm.
CONSULTANCY AND DATA ANALYSIS DESK (CADAD)
The worthy Vice Chancellor, UAF has approved setting up the CADAD in the Department of Math. & Stat. The Department has started
(from 21-02-2013) to deliver the services of Consultancy and Data Analysis to the Students, Faculty members of UAF and employees of
the other Institutions/private Organization at the subsidized nominal rates. This desk will assist and provide the help to researchers in
designing and planning their experiments, questionnaires, and data analysis. All the POs of research projects, supervisors and post
graduate students are invited to avail these services during working hours. All the other institutions, Research Departments, NGOs and
Faculty/students conducting any research or survey may avail the said services rendered by CASDAD. Contact: Phone: 041-9200457
Cell: 0333-6560596 Department of Math. & Stat., UAF.
PUNJAB EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENT FUND (PEEF) 2012-13
The awardees under captioned program are informed to collect their acknowledge sheet from Directorate of Financial Assistance &
University Advancement. The acknowledge sheet duly singed by authorities mentioned on it should be submitted before 26-03-2013 for
payment of their scholarship.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR PARKING DURING SPRING FESTIVAL 2013 TO BE HELD ON 26TH MARCH TO 1ST APRIL, 2013
Open auction of the parking spots at (a) Dairy Farm and area adjacent to Motor Pool (For Exhibition Parking 29th March to 1st April,
2013) (b) Near Jinnah Hall (For Exhibition Parking, 29th March to 1st April, 2013) Near Bilal Colony (For Grayhound and Horse City, 26th
March to 31st March, 2013). (i) The successful bidder will charge Rs. 10/- for bicycle, Rs. 20/- for Motorcycle, Rs. 30/- for Car/Jeep and
Rs. 50/- for Mini Truck Mazda/Hyundai etc. per entry per as parking fee (ii) The interested bidder(s) will deposit bid money of Rs.
25,000/- for Motorcycle, Bicycle, Cars in shape of bank draft in favour of Deputy Treasurer (DPIC), UAF or cash till 21st March, 2013 at
02:30 pm for parking point as mentioned above. (iii) The successful bidder will deposit the amount equal to the highest bid immediately
into Directorate of Procurement & Inventory Control, failing which bid money will be forfeited in favour of University, (iv) Govt. Vehicle
having green plates /vehicles indicated by the Estate Management Department will exempt from parking fee, (v) Arrangement of Fence,
watch & ward and management of the Parking spots will be the responsibility of the bidder, (vi) The bidder will be responsible for any
loss occurred due to damage/steal/ of any Vehicle (vii) Contractor will follow University Rules and instructions issued from time to time
(viii) University employees will not participate in the auction (ix) University reserves the rights to cancel/postpone the bid/auction without
assigning any reason, (x) The bidder will provide guarantor (University Officer), (xi) The bidder will provide original N.I.C. for self and his
employees. These will remain in the custody of the Estate Management Department upto 2nd April, 2013. The Estate Management
Department will issue the security cards to the successful bidder and his employees.
PLACEMENT OF PhD THESIS FOR PEER REVIEW
PhD thesis of Mr. Mian Muhammad Awais, Regd. No. 2003-ag-2076, will be placed for peer review in the office of the Chairman
Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Science for one week from 19-03-2013. The title of his PhD thesis is Evaluation of
sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) bio-molecules as biological response modifires and their immunotherapeutic effects against
coccidiosis in chicken. All interested persons are invited for their favorable suggestions.
ESTABLISHMENT OF FULBRIGHT OFFICE AT UAF
USEFP is bi-national commission established since 1951 to help promote mutual understanding through educational exchange of
outstanding scholars, professionals, and students between Pakistan and the US. USEFPs program department offers 13 different fully
funded scholarship program for students, professors, teachers, working professionals and journalists. The Fulbright Masters and PhD

program funds graduate study in the US for a Masters or PhD degree. Funded by the USAID, these grants cover tuition, required
textbooks, airfare, a living stipend, and health insurance. USEFP also assists with the visa process. Operating in Pakistan for more than
two decades, USEFPs testing services have expanded operations in recent years from Islamabad to Lahore and Karachi. Students
may register their USEFP for the TOEFL, GRE, SAT, or ACT examinations and many more such standardized tests or professional
certifications. This is to inform you that a USEFP Fulbright office has been established in FM Radio Building opposite to CDC at UAF
aiming at guiding the students and faculty about scholarship and training opportunities from Monday to Friday (9.00 am to 5.00 pm). For
information and other details please contact Mr. Zain Irfan at 0300-852-9890 or send your email at zain@usefpakistan.org.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RESOURCE CENTRE & DATA BANK (ITRCDB)

center named information Technology Resource Center and Data
Bank (ITRCDB) was established in December 2010. Under the
supervision of Principal Officer it has expanded its domain to
meet global standards in the prospective of education and
research. The ITRCDB consists of highly qualified team which is
self-motivated. They remain on-board to environment around the
clock to faculty students and other stakeholders at their threshold.
The Data Center of ITRCD is equipped with latest software and
hardware resources like Core Switches (CISCO catalyst switch
6506 CISCO Switch 4507), Wireless Controller CISCO 4402 with
IPS, Adaptive Security Appliance CISCO 5520 with Firewall, Antix & IPsec VPN, IBMs series Blade servers with 5.8 TB SAN, Dell
Power Edge and HP ML 370 G4 servers, and software
Resources Windows server 2008, Windows server 2008 R2,
REDHA Linux 5 enterprise edition, ORACLE 9i Microsoft Office
Communicator server etc. This well-equipped data center is
distributing 192MB bandwidth to the whole campus and hostel
area as it is connected with Pakistan Education Research
Network 2. The distribution network is comprised of distributing
switches of CISCO catalyst 3560 which are providing connectivity
to Access layer switches (CISCO Catalyst 3960, 2950 and 520)
and CISCO Light Weight Access Point 1242 series through UTP
and Core medium Fiber Optic. The Data Center is providing 192
Mbps real-time Internet connectivity to all departments including
the hostels of students and faculty affiliates.
I.T.R.C.D.B is also contributing in the progress of University by
means of providing 24-hour high speed controlled Internet access
throughout campus, Network and system support services,
Hardware repairing and maintenance services, Web and e-mail
services, Digital Library and E-brary access, MSDNAA Program
for all students and Faculty members, Video conferencing
services, IP Telephony services, Resource sharing over the LAN
infrastructure, Data backup and archiving, Network extensions for
existing and new departments in the campus, and Technical
assistance for procurement of IT related equipment and services
Network enhancements in pipeline
Center is planning to provide high speed internet facility to Motor
Pool, ITBMS and PARS Campus. To equip the community with
original windows and other software like MS Office, Anti Virus
and other productivity software for project planning and design
and to develop alternate WiFi link throughout the campus to
provide 24/7 uninterrupted internet facility.
SOFTWARE SECTION (Focal Person: Mr. Qamar Nawaz, Web
Developer contact 0334-9669696 Ph. # 9200161-170 # 3328)
Information Technology Resource Center and Data bank has also
developed and implemented Management information System for
UAF which is comprised of:
Library and Book Bank Information
This is feature rich library management software developed in
house to facilitate computerized books record, provide search
facility of book, journals and thesis to community, and track
issuance records of books. This software has also support of
Urdu language to facilitate operators.
Admissions and Enrollment Management for undergraduate
and postgraduate
This software is playing a core role in the admissions to record
data of all incoming and existing students. This software is also
capable of calculating merit lists automatically according to the
rules. For last 5 years, admission process is being facilitated by
this software.
Controller of Examination office is also equipped with in house
developed software which is capable of generating DMCs,
Degrees, Award list generation and management, subject
enrollments of all postgraduate and undergraduate students and
result lists generation.
Directorate of Students Affairs Information System for
students/staff is facilitating to generate and print identity cards.

Principal Officer ITRCDB: Prof. Dr. Muhammad Jalal Arif

Contact No. 0322-7641232
Here, as Principal Officer ITRCDB, I do want to put on record that
under the visionary and blazing leadership of Prof. Dr. Iqrar
Ahmad Khan (SI), our data network team has extended their
services providing 24 hour internet connectivity without any break
to the university community and accredited their competency
using existing resources. Now boosting up the IT assistance,
network team has designed a framework stratagem of selfmanaged employees account to update their status on website.
Our IT professionals remain all time available to support and
guide the researchers, students and academic/non-academic
staffs to pilot their efficiency and exertion. All world ranking
agencies accumulate data from the websites and recently the
UAF has been ranked by NTU Rankings in agricultural sciences
at 33rd position in the Asia Pacific region and at 158th position in
the world. The HEC has rated UAF at the top position for
research output among 140 universities in the country. We are
planning to put great emphasize on dissemination of research
output that is being produced faster than ever and its translation
into goods and services and timely updated on university website.
Now a days we are working hard to get the place in QS world
ranking, a high profile ranking agency for universities on world
level, and updating & developing new modules. UAF Initiative on
Internet and Society is a step into exploring, understanding and
trying to comprehend cyberspace and get solution of the
problems. We have recently established the cross-university
interdisciplinary Research Initiative on Internet and Society. We
are exploring the development of cyberspace, to facilitate its
study, to better understand its relationships to business,
technological, economic, social, legal and other dimensions of the
university community. Going forward, the immediate focus will be
on the content itself. We will identify other content areas besides
internet connectivity that can help to expand innovative research
and solutions to the end users. We will also develop protocols for
evaluation of the program itself. This includes designing
instruments to measure learning over time as well as indicators
for student engagement and other such factors that contribute to
the overall success of the program. Were open
to collaborating with people who can help us develop the content
as well as scale up the program itself. Network and software
development are the two components of the program that have
taken following initiatives to facilitate the community.
NETWORK SECTION (Focal Person: Mr. Wasi Ahmad,
Network Administrator Contact 0300-6603260 Phone
9200161-170 # 3316)
Information Technology has become everyday need. Teaching
Research without IT services cannot be imagined anymore. At
UAF the main effort to provide such services was through a
project Campus-wide Networking and Computerization of
University of Agriculture, Faisalabad by using Fiber Optics which
was completed in 2004. It supported to 400 nodes of Network
which has increased to 1500 nodes in 2008 and the existing
infrastructure could not support the increasing demand of
Network and software as many integrated modules of
Management Information system and Dynamic Website of the
university has already been developed. Under another project
entitled Strengthening of Educational & Research Facilities at
U.A. Faisalabad, student hostels were connected to the existing
server room, it is expected that it will further overburdened the
existing facilities. Consequently Up gradation/Strengthening of
I.T Infrastructure was launched under the mega project for
expansion and up gradation of internet, web and software
facilities to entertain in reliable manners at UAF. A new well
equipped Data Centre has been developed. Previous hardware
has been updated in the Main and Old campuses and all the
students hostels have been provided with a wireless facility as
well. To provide IT services in lucrative manners a separate

Student Record Branch Information System

Undergraduate and Postgraduate Fee Management System is
also a major software which is capable of keep track of all fees
paid by students in each semester. Fee slips are being generated
by using this software automatically for last few years. This
software is providing financial management assistance of funds
to the treasurer office.
The Centre is also administrating the following websites.
University website www.uaf.edu.pk which is the richest source of
comprehensive and up-to-date information about the campus life,
research,
academic
activities,
academic
calendar,
documentaries, photo galleries and publications. The university
website is also facilitating the student, staff and faculty by
providing web based catalog interface for Central Library of UAF
the end users can search Books, theses and journals effectively
& efficiently and also download soft copies of them.
www.library.uaf.edu.pk is providing web based interface of library
management software to provide information of book, thesis and
journals available at library online. Students and employees can
access this information without visiting library.
A web based forum for current student and alumni
www.uaf.edu.pk/alumni has also been developed and managed
by the center. It develops a social network of Old and New
students and become the centralized platform for current
students as well as alumni of UAF to keep in touch with each
other. Students/alumni can chat, send email, post jobs and can

share old memories with each other by adding other students in

their friends list.
Online employees repository and papers repository also has
been developed and managed by this center. These repositories
are providing all information about employees and publication so
far. www.icdd.uaf.edu.pk is another website managed by
the center. Web section is also managing employees official
email system which is hosted on Google servers known for
unbreakable security and identity theft protection. Employees are
encouraged to get their official email IDs to let they communicate
with outer world with their official identities.
FTP server, DNS server and in house web servers are being
managed by software development section at local data center.
Software enhancements in pipeline
Center is working on renewing official website with new and easy
to access look and feel with many new features and modules.
Self-managed employees account would be available on website
to each employee where they can upload/update their profile
information, CV, list of publications, list of books, list of projects,
list of supervised students and other related information.
Categorized news and events web based module will be
available soon which will provide events information categorized
by event types and dates.
Integrated software module to exchange information between
Fees, admissions and result software is being developed which
will provide single entry record management of each student.

PhD THESIS/SYNOPSIS DEFENCE

1. Ms. Kashfa Khaliq, Regd. No. 93-ag-697, PhD Student Department of Parasitology will defend her PhD thesis on 26-03-2013 at
11:00 am in the Video Conference Room. The title of her PhD thesis is Aloe vera polysaccharides and proteins as biological
response modifirers and their therapeutic efficacy against coccidiosis in chickens. All interested persons are invited to participate.
2. Synopsis defense of Miss Samreen Rasul, Regd. No. 2006-ag-350, PhD Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
titled Mutagenesis of Pseudomonas sp. For enhanced production of organophosphate hydrolase will be held on 27-03-2013 at
10:30 am in Biochemistry Laboratory. All interested are invited to attend.
3. Mr. Muhammad Ashraf, Regd. No. 93-ag-892, PhD student of the Department of Poultry Science, Faculty of Animal Husbandry,
UAF, will deliver a seminar in defense of his PhD synopsis on 26.03.2013 at 2:15 p.m. in the Conference Room, Faculty of Animal
Husbandry. The title of synopsis is Effect of black seed, olive and flaxseed oils on performance and immune response of broilers.
4. Mr. Mian Muhammad Awais, Regd. No. 2003-ag-2076, PhD student Department of Parasitology successfully defended his PhD
thesis on 16-03-2013. The title of his PhD thesis is Evaluation of sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) bio-molecules as biological
response modifiers and their immunotherapeutic effects against coccidiosis in chicken.
5. Mr. Muhammad Imran, Regd. No. 2002-ag-1661, a PhD student of the National Institute of Food Science & Technology has
successfully defended his PhD thesis at university level on 18-03-2013. The title of his thesis is Characterization of mango peel
mangiferin to elucidate its nutraceutical potential.
QUOTATION S
1. Bid No. 30/13. Sealed bids are invited from the registered firms of the UAF for purchase of Chemicals under Indigenous PhD
Scholarship Scheme of HEC for Miss. Zaib-un-Nisa for the National Institute of Food Science & Technology. The detailed and
other pre-requisites can be had from the Directorate of Procurement & Inventory Control (DPIC) during closing hours. The bids
should reach in the Directorate within 5 days from the date of publication of the Campus News. The bid money @ 2% of the quoted
value must accompany the bid in favour of Stores Officer, UAF.
2. Bid No. 31/13. Sealed bids are invited from the registered firms of the UAF for purchase of Refrigerator under project titled
Development of standard method through optimization of processing conditions for manufacturing of mozzarella cheese from
buffalo milk for NIFSAT. The detailed and other pre-requisites can be had from the Directorate of Procurement & Inventory Control
(DPIC) during closing hours. The bids should reach in the Directorate within 5 days from the date of publication of the Campus
News. The bid money @ 2% of the quoted value must accompany the bid in favour of Stores Officer, UAF.
3. Bid No. 32/13. Sealed bids are invited from the registered firms of the UAF for purchase of Laboratory Chemicals under EFS
Project, Improving Degraded Soil and Low Quality of Water using farm wastes and their use for crop farming for the Institute of
Soil & Environmental Sciences. The detailed and other pre-requisites can be had from the Directorate of Procurement & Inventory
Control (DPIC) during closing hours. The bids should reach in the Directorate within 5 days from the date of publication of the
Campus News. The bid money @ 2% of the quoted value must accompany the bid in favour of Stores Officer, UAF.
4. Bid No. 33/13. Sealed bids are invited from the registered firms of the UAF for purchase of Glassware under project titled
Arthopod Functional Genomics Initiative Building Community Resources for Animal Health for the Department of Parasitolgoy.
The detailed and other pre-requisites can be had from the Directorate of Procurement & Inventory Control (DPIC) during closing
hours. The bids should reach in the Directorate within 5 days from the date of publication of the Campus News. The bid money @
2% of the quoted value must accompany the bid in favour of Stores Officer, UAF.
5. Bid No. 34/13. Sealed bids are invited from the registered firms of the UAF for purchase of Kits/Chemicals under project titled
Arthopod Functional Genomics initiative Building Community Resources for Animal Health for the Department of Parasitology.
The detailed and other pre-requisites can be had from the Directorate of Procurement & Inventory Control (DPIC) during closing
hours. The bids should reach in the Directorate within 5 days from the date of publication of the Campus News. The bid money @
2% of the quoted value must accompany the bid in favour of Stores Officer, UAF.
AUCTION NOTICE
Some unserviceable and irrepairable articles will be auctioned on 06-04-2013 at 11:00 am in the office of the Incharge, Motor Pool UAF.
The interested persons may come and bid. One third of the total price will be recovered on the spot and the remaining amount will be
received after the approval of competent authority. The ordinance 2001, an advance tax @ 5% of the sale price will be collected by the
Incharge, Motor Pool from the successful bidder and deposited into the Government Treasury through income tax challan. The
competent authority reserves the right to accept or reject the highest bid without assigning any reason.