In the tug of war between the President’s House and the Federal Ministry of Education, Jamia Urdu has lost its administrative head

Karachi: Due to the ongoing political tension and tussle between the President’s House and the Federal Ministry of Education, the Federal Urdu University has become a victim of administrative and constitutional bankruptcy. does not approve summaries submitted by

The situation is that an acting registrar is running the administrative and financial affairs of Jamia Urdu without taking any instructions from anyone, but even in this she is facing the worst difficulties and it is said that the university has become an island that has its own neighbors. No contact with the world.

Sources of the Ministry of Education told “Express” that according to the information received from the university, the signing authority ie vice chancellor does not exist due to which no fund of the university has been transferred from one account to another.

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The fund is kept in the account in which it is present because the approval of the Vice-Chancellor is required to transfer or withdraw money from these accounts, so its withdrawal is not possible even to meet any requirement.

Since only the grant from HEC in the form of pension and salary is coming directly to the assignment account, only salary and pension payments are possible, however, if there is any interruption in this fund, these payments in the university There is also a fear of stopping.

It should be noted that there is no permanent Vice Chancellor in Urdu University since April 2 and according to a notification of the Federal Ministry of Education, the last Acting Vice Chancellor Dr. Ziauddin has completed his extended two-month term, so now he has no No more financial or administrative powers.

It is being told that after the removal of Acting Vice-Chancellor Dr. Ziauddin on the completion of the additional period of two months, the Federal Ministry of Education sent a summary of three names to the Presidency for the appointment of a new permanent Acting Vice-Chancellor. The Presidency did not take action, because the Presidency was of the view that according to the University Act, the Senate of Urdu University has the authority to recommend the appointment of Acting Vice-Chancellor and the Ministry of Education cannot send this name by itself.

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The position of the Ministry of Education was that since the Senate of the University no longer exists, most of the members have completed their terms and the quorum of the Senate is complete, so the Ministry of Education is carrying out this work, however, the matter was not as simple as that. The Ministry of Education submitted that as per the University Act, if the Senate of the University does not exist, in such a case, a three-member emergency committee of the Senate gives its recommendations on various matters.

In this regard, “Express” contacted Chairman HEC Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed on the matter of Urdu University, he said that “the people of Urdu University are its enemies, they themselves want the university to remain a victim of ad hocism and These people continued to do their arbitrary things, that’s why they did not allow the Senate to be formed until the term of the Vice-Chancellor was completed.
On the other hand, “Express” received an official document of the emergency committee of the university, which also reveals that the acting vice-chancellor of the university, Dr. Ziauddin, who was removed by the Ministry of Education, gave the minutes of the meeting. meeting) was amended and withdrawn and the minutes of the meeting were issued contrary to the original decisions.

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It should be noted that the emergency committee of the Senate includes member of the Senate, Wajid Jawad, Dr. Sarosh Lodhi and Professor Khalid Anees, and the meeting of the committee was held on March 31.

In the document, there is a disclosure on behalf of the committee that the Federal Ministry of Education issued a letter on February 27, according to which Acting Vice Chancellor Dr. Ziauddin will complete his term on April 2, 2023. The opposite was decided.

It was said in the meeting that the Acting Vice-Chancellor is appointed till February 2, after which the member of the Senate and the Vice-Chancellor of NED Dr. Sarosh Lodhi will take charge of Urdu University. However, if Dr. Sarosh Lodhi does not take this charge, then The charge of the Acting Head will remain with Dr. Ziauddin until the appointment of the permanent Vice-Chancellor, so the above notification of the Ministry of Education is not valid and contrary to the decision of the Senate meeting.
It should be noted that the same document containing the signatures of all the concerned members also states that the removal of the Vice-Chancellor will effectively abolish the Senate as he is the last or ninth member to complete the quorum. It has been postponed to 17th February 2023 and then 18th March 2023 simply due to non-fulfilment of the quorum due to which even the search committee for the new and permanent vice-chancellor has not been activated.

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While the appointment of 6 members of the senate for various positions and the deputy chairman is also delayed, the presidency has officially told the ministry of education in this regard, but the ministry of education is not issuing a notification.
On the other hand, the sources of the Ministry of Education say that among the six names we received from the President’s House for the Senate, there is one name of Dr. Saram, whose promotion and other issues are already being investigated, so he How to make a member of the senate and on this basis all the six names were returned to the presidency with objection while the same name was repeated once again by the presidency for the deputy chair who had recently retired from the seat. And the ministry also objects to their interference in various issues.

“Express” contacted Federal Secretary Education Waseem Ajmal about this situation, he said that there are many problems in the Urdu University Act due to which things are at a standstill. While the Vice Chancellor is to be appointed in the short term, but under the Act, it cannot be done without the Senate and the Senate is not complete.

On a question, he said that when the Senate is no more, how will the emergency committee of the Senate remain, but when he was reminded that the membership period of the members of the emergency committee is still left, he said that the Senate’s The emergency committee does not have the mandate to nominate a vice-chancellor.

In addition, it is also being told that the Federal Ministry of Education has prepared a new bill to amend the University Act, which is to be presented in the National Assembly, in this bill, the position of the Deputy Chair is abolished and the Senate session is chaired by the President or There is a recommendation to give Vice Chancellor instead of Deputy Chair.

In the bill, instead of nominations of faculty members in the senate, it is said to make them members of the senate through elections, while the appointment of the university vice-chancellor is recommended to be given to the HEC instead of the search committee formed by the Urdu university senate. has gone to make the HEC committee itself.