Islamabad, November 7: The students of B.Ed of Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) will start receiving their text books from next week, it was stated here on Thursday.

The University has already sent text books to almost all the students of Matric and FA’s programs, who were enrolled in Autumn, 2019’s semester.

According to Director Mailing, they are also in process of dispatching books to students of B.A (Associate degree) program. “ They are going to expedite the process, also dispatching the books to the post-graduate students from this month in accordance with the instructions of the Vice Chancellor Professor Dr. Zia-Ul-Qayyum.

The Mailing Department took some extra measures to undertake the job on fast-track basis, through use of 'state-of-the-art' technology.

This aimed at giving maximum study-period to the students, enabling them to timely complete their academic assignments. “We are following an annual academic calendar in doing this huge job, providing text books to around seven lakh students for one semester,” the officials said.

This is for the first-time in the AIOU’s history that books were being made available to the students, even when the admission process (autumn 2019 semester) was going on.

Meanwhile, the University is also in process of digitizing its overall working, so as to facilitate the students in the study process, providing them online study material.

The students of M.Phil and PhD have already started receiving the books online, according to the directions of the Vice Chancellor.