Govt approves special commemorative coin for NED university’s 100th anniversary

The government approved the issuance of a commemorative coin for NED university’s 100th anniversary. The State Bank of Pakistan issued 50,000 commemorative “Rs.100” coins to mark the university’s 100th anniversary. In a congratulatory speech, Fawad Chaudhry, Minister for Information and Broadcasting, commended the university’s faculty, Vice-Chancellor, and current and previous students for their outstanding achievements.

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NED University was founded in 1921 as Prince of Wales Engineering College and is named after Nadirshaw Edulji Dinshaw. It was originally a college that became a university under the government of Sindh in 1947.

Source: Voice of Sindh