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Sami Jamil A Al Hindi, Charge d'Affaires of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Bangladesh, handed over a cheque for US$ 326,775 to Prof Dr M. Imtiaz Hossain, Vice-Chancellor, Islamic University of Technology (IUT) while he called on him at his office on April 27 as full settlement of Saudi Arabia's contribution to the budget of IUT, a subsidiary organ of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) for the financial year 2008.

The Vice-Chancellor thanked the Charge d'Affaires and the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for this as well as for previous contributions and generous voluntary donations. The Vice-Chancellor described the various academic and other activities and programmes of the university which are in progress and have the participation of students from different member states of the OIC.

The Charge d' Affaires appreciated the commendable role being played by IUT in the development of human resources and assured the Vice-Chancellor of continued help and assistance from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to this prestigious university of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference for its overall development.