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| April 15, 2003 | Tuesday | Safar 12, 1424 |
Governor opens Hazara varsity
MANSEHRA, April 14: NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has said that the government takes keen interest in promotion of science and technology and as many as five universities have been allowed in the private sector to promote the objective.
He was speaking at a function after formally inaugurating the Hazara University at Dhodiyal here on Monday.
The governor said that the first, second and the third priority of the government is to improve the standard of education by laying emphasis on science, technology and microbiology. He said the HU has been established to give a new direction to the basic idea of education and to bring it in conformity with the modern day requirements.
He said the past governments had been befooling the people of Hazara on hollow slogans but did nothing practical for the establishment of a university.
Mr Shah said that there was a controversy on the site for the establishment of the university, whether to establish it in Abbottabad, Mansehra or Haripur. But after conducting a survey we finally selected the site of the government mental hospital at Dhodiyal in Mansehra, keeping in view the convenience of the students.
The governor made it clear that politicking would not be allowed in the HU and those found guilty of disturbing the peaceful academic atmosphere of the varsity would be taken to task. The HU has been established for the promotion of education and learning and not for providing jobs to the people of Hazara division, he maintained.
He hoped that the HU would emerge as a great centre of knowledge and excellence, a cradle of education and a beacon of light.
Earlier, HU vice chancellor Prof Dr Mohammad Daud Awan in his welcome address eulogised the governor’s services for promotion of education. He put to the credit of the governor the establishment of two boards of intermediate and secondary education, 14 colleges and three varsities in the province.
The VC said that at present there were 480 students in seven faculties in the HU. He said the faculties will be multiplied in the near future with special emphasis on establishment of the faculty of law.
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