KP govt committed to promoting research: CM

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has said that Universities Amendment Bill 2016 was aimed at raising the standard of education and research in the province.

Chairing a meeting of the Select Committee on the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa University Amendment Act 2016 at the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Thursday, he said that the legislation was being initiated for standardisation of education and research in the province.

Deputy Speaker Provincial Assembly Dr Mehar Taj Roghani, Minister for Law Imtiaz Shahid Qureshi, Special Assistant to chief minister for Higher Education Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani, other members of the committee, government functionaries and experts attended the meeting.

The meeting discussed the educational and research affairs of the universities, standard and criteria for appointment and posting on administrative positions and terms of references of the universities.

Pervez Khattak advised the legislators to make the university bill comprehensive and workable.

He elaborated that the provincial government believed in provision of uniformed opportunities of education to the people in the province. He said that practical steps were being initiated in this regard.

He stressed the need of making the frame of work of the universities flexible and easily extendable to the backward areas of the province.

Separately, the chief minister chaired the meeting of the select committee on Ehtesab Commission Amendment bill 2016.

He asked the committee to give final touches to the bill as earlier as possible. He explained that amendments in the Ehtesab Commission bill were aimed at making the law more effective and easily implementable. He remarked that without the process of accountability the dream of good governance could not be translated into reality.