KP Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan chaired the first-ever meeting of the Senate of the University of Swat held at the Governor House Peshawar on Tuesday and urged the administration to expedite work on the developmental activities side by side with working on their merit system so that spending public money could give the desired results for the larger interest of the student community.
The meeting was attended by Vice Chancellor of the university Prof Dr Muhammad Jahanzeb Khan, former chief secretary KP Ejaz Ahmad Qureshi, former VC University of Peshawar Prof Dr Qasim Jan, secretaries HED, Finance and Establishment departments, Chairman Department of Biotechnology Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad, Prof Dr Zabta Khan, Dean Faculty of Management Sciences Abdul Wali Khan University, Prof Dr Zahoorul Haq, Dean Department of Biological Sciences University of Malakand, Prof Dr Mir Azam Khan and Dean Management and Information University of Peshawar, Prof Dr Abdul Qayuum Khan.
The Governor while addressing the meeting stated that teachers should keep in mind that they should divert their capacities for making the foundation and base of the students strong.
Mehtab Khan opposed extension in the establishment of more and more universities but called for following pure merit without which they could not achieve the real goal. He said mushroom growth of universities would add nothing constructive to the development of academic standard but there should be strict check and balance in this connection.
KP Governor said the provincial government is also supporting the idea to have check on the growth of the universities. He directed for a committee headed by the Secretary Finance to go through the problems at the University of Swat and to regulate expansion of the universities.
Earlier the Governor was briefed in detail on the master plan devised for the University of Swat. He was told that 2.46 billion rupees had been approved for the construction of a campus for the university on which work was underway.