Staff Reporter
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) on Tuesday informed Senate Standing Committee on States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) that not a single college was affiliated with FATA University.
The committee met here at Parliament House under chairmanship of of Senator Taj Muhammad Afridi, Chairman of the committee. The members of the committee Senator Atta Ur Rehman and Senator Rana Mahmoodul Hassan also attended the meeting.
The committee was briefed regarding the progress made on the establishment of Erstwhile FATA University, setting up campuses of the university and number of colleges affiliated with it. While briefing the committee, the HEC senior official said that the matter did not pertain to HEC and it was domain of Higher Education Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The committee was further informed that a project titled “Establishment of sub campuses of public sector universities at district level phase-II was proposed in PSDP 2018-19. Four campuses of FATA University at Bajaur, South Waziristan, North Waziristan and Khyber Agency were proposed, the committee was informed in a written reply, adding that but due to rationalization, the project was dropped from PSDP.
Moreover, FATA University is in its initial stage of development and establishment of it’s campuses in ex-FATA is not feasible at that stage for the university.
