KARACHI, June 9: The Sindh Governor, Ishratul Ibad, on Friday said the government was paying attention to promotion of higher education on priority basis.

He said each public sector varsity in the province had been provided Rs3 billion in this regard.

Talking to a delegation of the Bahria University Karachi led by Vice-Admiral Farooq Rasheed at the Governor’s House, Ibad said the government was also cooperating with the private sector for promoting higher education in the province.

Vice-Admiral Farooq Rasheed informed in detail about the varsity’s activities and projects and said that under a programme, 4,500 laptop computers were being provided to the varsity’s students.

The governor praised the Bahria University’s administration for its educational projects and said that research and teaching environment was, in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission, being brought in accordance with modern needs.

He said work had been started to establish engineering and law varsities of international standards with foreign collaboration in the province.

Land for these universities had been allocated in the proposed education city, he added.

The governor said that a coordinated programme for improving libraries, research laboratories and faculty at local public-sector universities was also under way.

Meanwhile, officials of the National Database and Registration Authority also called on the Sindh governor and briefed him about the facility of utility bills collection machines.

They also performed demonstration of payment of utility bills through the said machines.

The governor was told that citizens would easily pay their utility bills through these machines without any hurdle and delay.

Several federal and provincial ministers, advisers, MPAs and nazims of city and district governments were present.—PPI