LAHORE:Three Faculty Members of the Punjab University’s Department of Sociology have won a project for research on inequality under the National Research Programme for Universities (NRPU) of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) Islamabad, regarding the right to clean water and its supply across the board. Research on this project will be carried out in all four provinces under the supervision of Associate Professor of Sociology Dr Farhan Naveed Yousaf, Assistant Professor Dr Rizwan Safdar and Assistant Professor Dr Siddique Akbar. The HEC will release funds of Rs3.5 million for this project. Dr Farhan said that the project would expand the ongoing educational, research and creative activities in PU. He said that according to the WHO, millions leave us every year from diseases caused by polluted water. He said that research on inequalities in supply of potable water was of essential.
