Daily Times

The All Punjab Vice Chancellors Convention was held in the Governor’s House on Thursday for five long hours in which major decisions were made regarding formulating the curriculum of all universities on modern standards, elimination of ad-hocism from universities and to monitor the performances of vice chancellors.

Punjab Governor Ch Mohammad Sarwar also directed universities to start “Clean and Green Campus” campaign, to publish calendars of senate and syndicate’s yearly meetings and directed universities to immediately complete the body of senate, board of governors and syndicate.

Chancellor and Governor Punjab Ch Muhammad Sarwar also directed universities to set up students complaints committees to timely solve the students complaints and said that political interference in the universities will not be tolerated and no-one will be allowed to do politics in educational institutions. He assured that political influence from the universities has been eliminated and no chance of appointments without merit including the appointments of Vice Chancellors and registrars. No one will be tolerated for overlooking merit and transparency including Vice Chancellors.

According to details, the convention which was held under the Chair of Governor Punjab Sarwar who is also the Chancellor of universities, was also attended by Provincial Ministers Yasir Humayun, Husnain Buhadur Dareshak, Malik Nauman Langrial , Prinicpal secretary to Governor Punjab Babar Hayat Tarar, Secretary Higher Education Dr Raheel Siddique, Secretary specialized healthcare Momin Ali Agha, Chairman Higher Education Commission Punjab Dr Fazal Khalid, Vice Chancellor LCWU Dr Bushra Mirza, Vice Chancellor of University of Health Sciences Dr Asad Zaheer, Vice Chancellor of Punjab University Dr Nayaz Akhtar, University of Gujrat’s Vice Chancellor Shabbar Attique and Vice Chancellors of government and private universities and Vice Chancellors of Punjab Based Federal Charted Universities were also present at the convention.

During the conference, vice chancellors of universities briefed about their issues and performance for four hours to Governor Punjab, Provincial Ministers and relevant departments. While addressing the conference Governor Punjab said that a lot of suggestions were received regarding speedy and efficient solution of University issues and we are deciding that to monitor relevant files regarding universities, an online File Tracking system should be initiated, Government will take steps to transfer universities on solar power source and special focus would be given to research activities in universities, government will fully cooperate with universities and it is our priority to link the students and universities with the industry and business world. It is imminent to give special focus on research activities and specifically research on eradication of environmental pollution and the current research should be used to devise policies.