KARACHI: The Sindh authorities has enacted the Universities Modification Invoice 2025, paving the best way for bureaucrats to be appointed as vice chancellors in varsities of the province, ARY Information reported.
Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori had refused to grant his assent to the invoice and returned it to the provincial meeting for reconsideration, elevating objections to the brand new regulation that expanded the eligibility standards to the serving bureaucrats for appointment as vice chancellor in public-sector universities.
Beneath Part 3 of Article 116 of the Structure, if the invoice is handed once more by the meeting, with or with out amendments, it can robotically be enacted inside 10 days, even when the governor refuses to grant his assent.
In the meantime, the Increased Training Division has introduced the emptiness for the vice chancellor place at NED College, and bureaucrats with a grade of 21 or above are eligible to use.
Different eligible candidates for the vice chancellor place embody deans, registrars, principals, and different tutorial consultants. The Sindh authorities had beforehand ignored the objections raised by the Sindh governor concerning the Universities Modification Invoice.
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Earlier on February 17, the provincial meeting handed the Sindh Universities Modification Invoice 2025 regardless of opposition’s protest. Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Regulation, Ziaul Hassan Lanjar tabled the Sindh Universities Modification Invoice 2025 earlier than the home.
The session noticed uproar from opposition members, with MQM legislators chanting slogans towards the invoice. Following the invoice’s re-approval within the Sindh Meeting, the objections raised by the Governor of Sindh have been rejected.
The Federation of All Pakistan Universities Educational Workers Associations (Fapuasa)-Sindh chapter has strongly condemned the regulation and vowed to battle towards it at each discussion board.