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Sindh HEC yet to get control of public varsities
Universities and Boards Dept to keep administrative powers for now
KARACHI:
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has temporarily stopped the transfer of administrative powers of public universities in the province from the Universities and Boards Department to the Sindh Higher Education Commission (Sindh HEC).
The CM also directed to take into confidence and consult with other stakeholders, including the Adviser to the CM on Universities and Boards Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, on the issue of the transfer of administrative powers of public universities in the province.
The decision to temporarily stop the government universities in the province from being handed over to Sindh HEC was taken after a briefing by the relevant secretary on the issue at a Sindh cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
Adviser Universities and Boards Nisar Ahmed Khuhro at a presser held on Wednesday in the Sindh Assembly committee room announced that the province would continue with the two-year graduation degree programmes.
KARACHI: Adviser Universities and Boards Nisar Ahmed Khuhro at a presser held on Wednesday in the Sindh Assembly committee room announced that the province would continue with the two-year graduation degree programmes, describing the four-year graduation policy of the federal Higher Education Commission (HEC) as an “attack” on provincial autonomy.
“The process of abolishing the two-year degree programmes is an attack on provincial sovereignty. Sindh rejects these federal HEC policies and universities in Sindh will continue with the two-year programme under the Universities Act,” he said.
Sindh cabinet approves Rs4b for monsoon relief
Cash disbursement to affectees of 2020 rains to be done via mobile banking
People wade through the flooded road during monsoon rain in Karachi. PHOTO: REUTERS
The Sindh cabinet approved a relief grant of over Rs4 billion on Tuesday for those who sustained losses during the 2020 monsoon rains. The cash is to be disbursed among the affectees through the mobile banking system.
Besides, the cabinet approved the establishment of an anti-encroachment police station in Tharparkar district and a proposal for universalised social security system in the province, and set up committees to review the recruitment policy for teaching and non-teaching staff and to review a proposal by the agricultural department seeking its own works unit .
BILAWAL Bhutto-Zardari speaks at the inauguration ceremony of the Sindh Industrial Trading Estate in Larkana on Friday. PPI
LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has hinted at the possibility of ousting the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government through no-confidence motion and said all member parties of Pakistan Democratic Movement will be convinced to use this option and reach consensus on the issue.
Bilawal said at an inauguration ceremony for newly-established Sindh Industrial Trading Estate near Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University on Airport Road in Arija town near here on Friday that the no-confidence move could be tabled against the “selected” prime minister and speaker.