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Govt to upgrade SMI and Dawood College
KARACHI, Jan 22(Daily Times): Sindh Education Minister Dr Hamida Khuhro has directed
Education Secretary Sabhago Khan Jatoi and the Provincial Education Manager
(Colleges) Sindh Dr Mohammad Ali Shaikh to devise a plan for the elevation and
upgradation of the two federal institutions, the Sindh Madressatul Islam (SMI)
and the Dawood College of Engineering and Technology (DCET). They will be
revamped in view of their imminent transfer to the Sindh government. The orders
came during a meeting of senior education department officials Monday.
It
may be recalled that Federal Minister for Education Lt. Gen. (retd.) Javed
Ashraf Qazi had written a letter to Khuhro, conveying the federal government's
consent to the transfer of these two premier colleges to the provincial
government.
Khuhro said that SMI deserves to be elevated to the level of
university in view of its tremendous services for the cause of education in the
subcontinent. SMI was established in 1885, just ten years after establishment of
the Anglo-Oriental Mohammedan School at Aligarh, which became a college in 1877
and a university in 1920. On the other hand SMI became a college in 1985 and was
still working at the same level.
Shaikh reminded the participants of the
meeting that a while ago, a committee had been formed (chaired by the then KU
vice chancellor Dr Jamil Jalbi). This committee had recommended that SMI should
be made a university.
Similarly, in the case of DCET, Shaikh said that a
committee under the chairmanship of the then Chairman University Grants
Commission Capt. (Retd.) Usman Ali Issani, had recommended the elevation of DCET
to the status of a degree-awarding institute.
However, Shaikh continued,
both the proposals could not materialize because these institutions were
controlled by the federal government, while the authority to grant the charter
of a university or a degree-awarding institute remained with the provincial
assembly and the provincial government.
He said that the provincial
government could consider elevating and upgrading SMI and DCET once their
administrative control was transferred to the provincial government.
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| Education News | | Updated: 08 Feb, 2012 |
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