RAWALPINDI - National University of Science and Technology Centre of Virology and Immunology (NCVI) organised a Spring Festival at its campus Tamiz -ud-Din Road here on Saturday. Rector NUST Lt Gen. Muhammad Asghar and Director General NCVI Dr Ishtiaq Qadri inaugurated the festival by flying balloons in the air. The festival started with the recitation of verses from the Holy Quran. The Rector stressed that such kind of events depict colour and vigor of life. "NUST is among the top 400 universities of the world and is providing higher education in the fields of Engineering, Administrative Sciences, Applied Biosciences," he added. Basically this event was organised to celebrate the colours of Spring with the parents, families and friends of under graduate, post graduate and PhD students. Many colourful and gorgeous stalls like handicrafts, Mehndi, song dedication and paintings were established in the festival and the participants visited these stalls enthusiastically. A game Rassa Kashi filled the air with joy and fun. Dr Kashif Asghar, Tahir Baig and Tayaba Bashir were the coordinator of the festival.