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| June 14, 2005 | Tuesday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 6, 1426 |
Call to reduce college affiliation charges
PESHAWAR, June 13: The provincial assembly’s standing committee on higher education has suggested that the taxes should be reduced and rules for affiliation of private educational institutions with the universities should be relaxed. A meeting of the committee was held under the chairmanship of MPA Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani at the conference room of the NWFP Assembly Secretariat on Monday.
The chairman and members of the committee were of the view that a strategy should be prepared to reduce the burden of taxes on private educational institutions.
The matter of affiliation with the universities should also be simplified to encourage the academic bodies.
The meeting discussed at length the issue of affiliation of colleges and educational institutions with the Hazara University, the process of affiliation and registration of private educational institutions with the Higher Education Regulatory Authority (HERA).
It also discussed the property tax being imposed on the private educational institutions and formed two sub- committees, which would review the affiliation and property tax issues separately with the directives that the Vice Chancellor of the Hazara University would also be invited to the next meeting regarding affiliation.
The chairman asked the committee to remove any overlapping in rules and rectify the main flaws in this connection and bring to light a viable solution for the matter keeping in view the ground realities as well.
Members of the NWFP Assembly Anwar Kamal Khan Marwat, Shahzada Mohammad Gastasip Khan, Farid Khan, Shah Hussain and Ms Riffat Akbar Swati, Secretary Higher Education Sahibzada Khalid, Chairman HERA Humayun Zia, Dean Preston University Dr. Mohammad Anwar, Dean Hazara University Dr Maqbool Ahmad, MD Frontier Model School Khwaja Yawar Naseer, Chief Executive of Hayatabad Science College Rahmat Salim Khattak, Chief Executive of Forward Public School Mohammad Sarfaraz, Deputy Secretary Law Salim Khan and other officers attended the meeting.
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