QUETTA: Balochistan Acting Governor Mir Jan Muhammad Jamali has expressed concern over the state of public sector universities and said they were faced with a financial crisis that could adversely affect higher education in the province.

Presiding over a meeting of vice chancellors on Thursday, Mr Jamali — who is also the chancellor of universities in the province — said: “Serious financial crisis of the universities is worrying, as it was worsening with the passage of time.”

However, he assured that all possible efforts would be made to resolve the crisis and said the provincial government should issue a Rs5 billion grant in this regard. Besides, the federal government should also pay necessary attention to the universities in Balochistan to get them out of the financial crisis.

The vice chancellors of the universities briefed the meeting about the financial issues being faced by the public sector universities in the province.

Published in Dawn, August 12th, 2022