Another 16 Universities For Sindh On The Anvil

Karachi: As many as 16 new private sector universities in Sindh alone are in the pipeline, charters for whom are in the process of revalidation at the Provincial Education Department, well placed sources in the department informed on Monday.


Bills of these 16 universities were introduced and passed by the last legislative Sindh Assembly during its tenure.

However, later due to a technical flaw of bypassing the Education Department before introducing the bills in the provincial assembly, these cases were not refereed to the Sindh governor for endorsement, according to the Additional Secretary, Education, Sindh (Academics), Professor Rais Alvi.

The Additional Secretary disclosed that at the moment charters of these 16 private sector universities were in the process of re-validation at the Education Department, following which these cases would be refereed to the governor after an inspection committee submits the report to the governor.

The governor has constituted a committee to evaluate these private sector universities by carrying out physical and financial inspection. The committee is headed by Additional Secretary Rais Alvi and comprises Director Colleges Iftikhar Hussain Zaidi and Secretary Affiliation Committee University of Karachi Dr Shahid Hussain Zaidi.

Some of the 16 private universities include Coastal University Thatta, University of East Hyderabad, Petroman University etc.