The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamid Ansari conferred Sir Ross Masood Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Leadership, Education, Community and Public Service-2014 to Shri Saiyid Hamid, the Chancellor, Jamia Hamdard and former Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) at a function here today. The Vice President presented a Citation for Award and an award cheque to Shri Hamid. Addressing after conferring the award, Shri Ansari said that the Aligarh Muslim University Alumini Associations have been functional worldwide and he himself launched the UAE chapter of AMU Alumini Association. He said that Shri Hamid has played a very important and significant role for many decades in the field of education and it is of very much importance that Aligarh Muslim University Association Inc. New York (AAANY) has unanimously selected to honour him.