K-P picks VCs for 9 universities
A multiplication dais headed by Justice Waqar Ahmed Seth listened a case. PHOTO: PPI
PESHAWAR: A outline for a appointment of clamp chancellors for 9 open zone universities has been sent to a Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) administrator for capitulation notwithstanding a fact that a Peshawar High Court (PHC) released a stay sequence on it on Apr 21.
The outline was authorized by a K-P Chief Minister Pervez Khattak after 7 months of clever inspection and vetting.
On September, 29, 2016, K-P Higher Education and Archives and Library Department announced posts of clamp chancellors for 9 universities, including University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Shuhada-e-Army Public School University of Technology, Nowshera, University of Peshawar, University of Science and Technology, Bannu, University of Haripur, University of Swabi, Bacha Khan University, Charsadda and Khushal Khan Khattak University, Karak.
An central of a K-P Higher Education Department (HED), who requested not to be named, pronounced for a appointment to a 9 VCs seats, around 191 possibilities had applied, out of that 57 were short-listed while 55 seemed for talk before a Academic Search Committee in March.
The K-P HED central told The Express Tribune that after capitulation of a K-P arch minister, 9 names have been sent to a K-P governor, who is also a chancellor of all a universities, for final approval.
Above 50 comparison possibilities challenged a preference criteria of a K-P supervision for a VCs’ posts in a PHC. They also available their reservations during a press discussion during a internal press bar final month and blamed a supervision for proposing names of a blue-eyed VCs instead of a many comparison candidates.
However, on Apr 21, a PHC released a stay sequence temporarily exclusive a K-P supervision from notifying a appointments of VCs for 9 seats and demanded a authorities endangered to explain a whole preference routine within 20 days.
Talking to The Express Tribune, K-P HED Additional Secretary Khalid Khan reliable that a routine for a appointment of VCs has entered a final stage.
Published in The Express Tribune, Apr 24th, 2017.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1391735/phc-stay-order-ignored-k-p-picks-vcs-nine-universities/