KARACHI, July 3: The Sindh education department on Monday notified that it had assumed the administrative control of colleges in the province with immediate effect. A source in the department said the change in the control of about 238 colleges had become due after an amendment by the Sindh governor in the Sindh Local Government Ordinance, 2001, over two months back.

In the notification issued on Monday, it was said that the control of college education in Sindh stood transferred from district/city governments to the Sindh government’s department of education and literacy.

It was further learnt that under an immediate arrangement, the existing EDO (Higher Education), Karachi, Mohammad Ali Shaikh, would perform as provincial education manager over five regional education managers, being installed at Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Mirpurkhas and Larkana.