LAHORE: Governor Ch Muhammad Sarwar said on Wednesday that any sort of hurdle including bureaucratic would not be tolerated in the affairs of universities.Chief Minister and Provincial Minister for Higher Education were on the same page with regard to ensure transparency and merit. He was addressing the Universities Rectors Conference 2019 here at Governor House on Wednesday.Punjab University (PU) Vice Chancellor Prof Niaz Ahmed, Superior University’s Rector Sameera Rehman, University of Health Sciences (UHS) Vice Chancellor Prof Javed Akram, Lahore Garrison University (LGU) Vice Chancellor and VCs of other universities of Punjab were also present on the occasion.Muhammad Sarwar said that like other institutions, the PTI government had also purged the universities of political interference and all the decisions regarding universities were being made keeping in view the merit and transparency. The education sector was obliterated, whenever appointments on VCs and other key posts of universities were made on political basis that was in no way in the interest of the country and the nation, he cited.Chaudhry Sarwar said that industry and academia synergy was need of the hour, asserting that Business Centres would be also be established in universities to materialise the graduating students’ ideas into business opportunity.He said that plan to incorporate representative of chambers of commerce and industry in the syndicate of respective universities was also being considered. The governor added that Girls Guide and Scouts would also be revived in the universities and Girls Guide would be imparted a six-month free nurses course and this course would be initiated from Superior University. He vowed, “We have to empower women and youth in every field”.
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