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April 22, 2021
KARACHI: There is no quota for persons with disabilities in engineering universities, an online meeting of vice chancellors across the country was told on Wednesday.
The meeting, which was chaired by President Dr Arif Alvi, was attended by 166 vice chancellors.
Dr Sarosh Hashmat Lodhi, vice chancellor of Karachi’s NED University, said since there is no quota for persons with disabilities in engineering universities, they do not get admissions. “The Pakistan Engineering Council decided in 1974 that no special seat would be reserved for the disabled and that decision is still in force,” he said.
President Alvi expressed his surprise over the non-availability of quota for the disabled in engineering universities. He said there was also a need to look into the medical field in which people with disabilities are being neglected.
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In 2019, the evaluation and subsequent grading of Sindh s private universities was interrupted for the year as the world reeled from the aftermath of a deadly pandemic.
After a gap of around a year and a half, the Charter Inspection and Evaluation Committee (CIEC), a body formed to grade and monitor Sindh s public and private universities and recommend chartering of private universities, has resumed the process, picking up from where it left off, employing old and now somewhat redundant criteria for evaluating and ranking varsities and giving little consideration to the fact that the modes of teaching have undergone a drastic change following the Covid-19 outbreak.