LAHORE : Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar chaired a meeting at his office about the higher education department in which progress on the establishment of universities was reviewed. The CM directed to speedily resolve issues relating to new universities’ establishment as the facility would, particularly, benefit female students of remote areas.
The CM gave in-principle approval to transfer state lands for the establishment of new colleges in different areas as the government was striving to extend facilities of higher education to the youth at their doorstep. The government was committed to transforming Punjab into a hub of higher education and improving the international ranking of Punjab based universities is sanguine; he added and directed to take steps to establish colleges in remote areas. The Lahore Technopolis would prove a game-changer initiative, he said. Punjab was being transformed through the promotion of quality education; he maintained and vowed to ensure ease in education promotion for the private sector.
Provincial ministers Raja Yasir Humayun, Hashim Jawan Bakht, SMBR, secretary higher education and others attended the meeting