‘Govt to support private campuses’

LAHORE
Punjab Labour Minister Raja Ashfaq Sarwer and Federal Minister for Defence Production, Science & Technology Rana Tanveer Hussain have said the government is committed to enhancing education, supporting private sectors’ education institutes imparting information technology and latest educational facilities to the youth.
COMSAT University is playing its pivotal role to provide high standard education to the masses as well as children of labour community.
They said this while chairing a meeting regarding lease and other related matters of COMSAT University, Lahore Campus. Secretary Higher Education Irum Bukhari, Secretary Labour Ishrat Ali, Rector COMSAT Dr SM Junaid Zaidi, Lahore Campus Director Dr Mehmood Ahmed Bodlah, Punjab Workers Welfare Board secretary and officers concerned from Labour, PWWB & COMSAT attended the meeting. Lease extension, labour quota and related matters between PWWB and COMSAT came under discussion in the meeting.
Raja Ashfaq Sarwer while lauding the performance of the institute said that COMSAT University is one of the leading and prestigious institutes of the country providing latest education.
Its Lahore Campus was functioning on the premises and building of PWWB which neither could be sold nor transferred as it was in the ownership of PWWB labour community. Federal Minister for Science & Technology Rana Tanveer Hussain said COMSAT administration should submit such proposals to the government so as to provide them 100 to 150 acre of land at Muridke or any other proper place in Lahore by Punjab government for the construction of their permanent campus and federal government will fully cooperate and fund this Campus for its smooth functioning.