LAHORE – Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa has asked vice chancellors from the public sectors universities to mobilize the youth in order to check brain drain in the country.
“It is our responsibility to mobilize the youth and inculcate in them the spirit of serving the country”, he said while chairing a meeting of the VCs from seventeen public sector universities at the Governor’s House here Saturday. The administrative secretaries from the various provincial departments including Higher Education, Live-stock and Dairy development, Agriculture and Finance were also present during the meeting.
The Punjab Governor said education was his top-priority as governor, adding that Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif had special preference to education and he would work for the resolution of problems faced by the universities in collaboration with Shahbaz Sharif.
Admiring Shahbaz Sharif’s services for the cause of education, he said that Punjab Chief Minister was utilizing all resources for the development of education sector in Punjab. Khosa urged the universities to design their curriculum as per the needs of the contemporary times, adding that standard rather than number should be maintained in research.
The Punjab Governor said that the new generation should be introduced to their culture and the message of the sufis in order to discourage extremist tendencies from the society. The Chancellor said that no political interference would be borne within the educational institutions, reminding the VCs to play their active role in purging their institutions of politics which may spoil the academic atmosphere.
Khosa said that positive ideas would be embraced with an open heart in the public sector universities for strengthening academic as well as scholarly environment in the universities. The Punjab Governor assured the educationists that he would take measures regarding the provision of funds to the universities for the smooth running of institutions.
The governor said while directing Vice Chancellors that Pakistan gave us a lot so we had to pay for it in the shape of providing such educational system that our students felt proud and prefer to study hare in this country rather than to go abroad for this particular purpose and it’s the responsibility of Vice Chancellors to upgrade this system.
Earlier, the vice-chancellors from the seventeen public sector universities briefed Punjab Governor on the performance of their institutions and apprised him of the problems faced by their respective Universities. The vice-chancellors included Prof. Dr. Mujahid Kamran, VC, Punjab University, Lahore, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Zafarullah VC, BZU, Multan, Prof.Dr. Muhammad Mukhtar Chaudhry VC, Islamia University, Bahawalpur,
Prof.Dr. Muhammad Iqar Ahmad Khan VC, Agriculture University, Faisalabad, Prof. Dr. Khalid Mehmood Khan VC, Arif Agriculture, Rawalpindi, Lt.Gen. (R) M. Akram Khan, VC, UET, Lahore, Dr. Mrs. Farhat Saleem, VC, University of Education, Lahore, Prof.Dr. Saeeda Asadullah Khan VC, FHWU, Rawalpindi, Prof.Dr. Khalid Aftab VC, GCU, Lahore.
Prof. Dr. Mrs. Farhat VC.LCWU, Lahore, Prof.Dr. Zakir Hussain VC, GCU, Faisalabad. Prof.Dr. Muhammad Akram Ch. VC. University of Sargodha,Prof.Dr. Muhammad Nawaz VC, UVAS, Lahore, Prof.Dr. Hussain Mubashar Malik VC, University of Health Sciences,Lahore, Prof.Dr. Asad Aslam VC, KEMU, Lahore, Prof. Dr.Muhammad Nizam ud Din VC, University of Gujrat.
