National Urdu Science Congress 2019 begins

The two-day National Urdu Science Congress 2019 organised by the Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) on National Science Day began on Thursday. At the inaugural session, Dr Qazi Siraj Azhar, Associate Professor at Michigan University said that people who do not invent either vanish or go into obscurity. The Congress has participants from Lucknow, Delhi and Maharashtra, besides faculty and students of MANUU. The



participants include practitioners of science, academicians, students and Urdu writers with interest in science and other stakeholders.

MANUU vice chancellor Dr Aslam Parvaiz, emphasised on the efforts being taken by the university to provide textbook material in Urdu to the students. Several books written in Urdu on different topics of science were also released.