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Vice Chancellors Committee gives a final shape to the future roadmap

Rana Mashud AhmadLahore: The Vice Chancellors Committee set up by Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has given a final shape to the future roadmap of higher education in Punjab for the next ten years.

Under the roadmap, besides establishment of an international standard Information Technology and Technical University at Knowledge Park in Lahore, up-gradation of existing sub-campuses of public sector universities, granting of the status of full-fledged universities to some major government colleges and improvement of the infrastructure of the existing universities, development projects worth Rs.34.6 billion would be completed during the five years period from 2014 to 2018.

An action plan has also been evolved for spending a further amount of 30 billion rupees on infrastructure development during the next five years period.

This was informed in a briefing regarding the future of higher education at a meeting presided over by Provincial Minister for Education Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan. Vice Chancellor University of Engineering and Technology Lahore Lt. General (Retd.) Muhammad Akram Khan, Vice Chancellor Punjab University Dr. Mujahid Kamran, Vice Chancellor GC University Dr. Khaliq ur Rehman, Vice Chancellor Lahore University of Management Sciences Dr. Sohail H Naqvi, Chairman Steering Committee on Education Prof. Zafar Iqbal Qureshi, Secretary Higher Education Punjab Abdullah Khan Sumbal, Additional Secretary Shahid Zaman, Director British Council Pakistan Peter Upton, Director British Council Punjab Richard Weyers, Director Education British Council Islamabad Ms Nishat Riaz and Manager Higher Education Muhammad Ali attended the meeting.

Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan thanked British Council Pakistan for playing a key role in achieving millennium development goals for the promotion of school education in Punjab and expressed the hope that British Council will also provide technical assistance in raising the standard of higher education in Punjab to the international level.

Head of Vice Chancellors’ Committee, Lt. General (Retd). Muhammad Akram Khan informed the meeting that under the future plan, projects of 3 billion rupees have been given a final shape for improving infrastructure of universities during first five years. Moreover, infrastructure of Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Engineering & Technology in Multan will be completed at a cost of 3.8 billion rupees and one billion rupees will be spent on the project in the first phase.

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