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Punjab University senate approves Rs 9b budget

LAHORE: The Punjab University (PU) Senate approved rupees 9 billion budget for the year 2018-2019 in its 351st meeting at the Senate Hall, Old Campus here on Thursday.
The meeting of the Senate, which was held after a lapse of almost 12 years, was chaired by Punjab University Vice-Chancellor Prof Niaz Ahmad Akhtar with about 100 members in attendance. The last meeting of PU Senate was held in 2007.
The PU Senate also granted ex-post facto approval to the budgets for the previous fiscal years from 2007 onwards.
The Senate gave approval to the adoption of Tenure-Track Statues version 2.0, revision in criteria and honorarium for Professor Emeritus, adjustment of sabbatical leaves of the faculty members working on TTS and raising minimum qualification for appointment of lecturer and assistant professors as per HEC notification.
Briefing the media after Senate’s meeting, PU Vice-Chancellor Prof Niaz Ahmad said that the incumbent administration believed in merit, good governance, transparency and accountability which would be reflected in every operation and function of the university.
The VC said the PU administration would make all statutory bodies functional and within two months meetings of all statutory bodies had been held, adding that it would be helpful to streamline university affairs and ensure transparency.
He said that PU would take part in the race of international ranking of the universities and documents had been submitted for QS Asia ranking.
He said that PU would promote socio-economic impact research so that the country and society could develop besides making efforts for maintaining the student-teacher ratio. He said the university had advertised top positions for removal of ad hoc culture and all positions would be filled on merit.
Dr. Niaz said the administration would encourage foreign students and foreign faculty members for internationalizing the university, claiming the past glory and academic excellence of the country’s oldest alma mater would also be restored. He said that the administration would launch a compressed semester program in summer in collaboration with the universities of all provinces to promote provincial harmony.

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.