KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has decided to declare the Government College Hyderabad a university as the college has successfully completed 100 years of educational services.

Presiding over a meeting here at CM House on Friday, the chief minister said that the college deserved to be declared a university on merit, on the basis of its historical importance and on the basis of its educational track record.

He assigned the task of upgrading the college’s status to the level of university to Education Minister Jam Mehtab Dahar and asked him to submit recommendations in this connection.

The meeting was attended by the education minister, former federal secretary Mazharul Haq Siddiqui, Qazi Asad Abid, former MPA Abdul Rehman Rajput, Professor Idrees Khan, principal secretary to the CM Sohail Rajput, secretary U&B Naveed Shaikh and secretary of colleges Pervez Sahar and principal of the college Faisal Nasiruddin Shaikh.

The participants from Hyderabad had come to invite the chief minister to be the chief guest on the occasion of the centenary celebrations being organised by the alumni association of the college from Oct 9 to 14, 2017.

Accepting the invitation, Mr Shah said: “It is an honour for me and I want to tell you that I have decided to announce the [upgrade] of the college to the level of university in my speech in your programme.”

Published in Dawn, August 19th, 2017