Case hearing: HEC ‘plays no role’ in appointing VCs
The petitioners’ counsel, Advocate Saad Rasool, told a dais a powers to designate VCs usually complacent with a HEC. PHOTO: EXPRESS
LAHORE: The disciple ubiquitous of Punjab has told a Lahore High Court that a Higher Education Commission (HEC) plays no purpose in a appointment of vice-chancellors during public-sector universities.
The justice was conference a petition opposite appointment of vice-chancellors filed by Punjab University’s Zoology Department Professor Dr Asmatullah and others on Friday.
AGP Shakilur Rehman pronounced a provincial aloft preparation dialect was determined after devolution of powers underneath a 18th Amendment of a Constitution.
He pronounced a dialect had rightly instituted a routine of appointing a vice-chancellors during 4 open universities. He combined a HEC could usually allow recommendations for preparation standards and financial affairs of a universities.
He pronounced a HEC could not emanate any discipline on a appointment of VCs in a participation of universities’ parliament and syndicate. He requested a justice to boot a petitions opposite a appointment process.
The petitioners’ counsel, Advocate Saad Rasool, told a dais a powers to designate VCs usually complacent with a HEC. He asked a justice to approach a supervision to designate VCs in suitability with a law and merit.
After conference a arguments, Justice Shahid Karim shelved a conference compartment Oct 13 and sought respond from both parties.
The justice has already stayed a routine for a appointment of VCs during Punjab University, Lahore College for Women University, University of Sargodha and Nawaz Sharif University of Engineering and Technology, Multan.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 8th, 2016.
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