Transfer of power : ‘End remote control action from Islamabad’
PPP’s Taj Haider argues discrimination against Sindh students will go down.
KARACHI:
As the debate rages on the end to the Higher Education Commission, a ruling party representative attempted to argue some advantages to the provinces managing university affairs.
“The discrimination against students from Sindh can now be limited,” said Taj Haider, who is the Pakistan Peoples Party’s man in Sindh. “Everyone from a poor student to vice chancellors will not have to run to Islamabad to get small things done and now the biggest of problems can now be tackled locally.”
Haider argued in a statement issued on Monday, that when Sindh forms its own Higher Education Commission it will ensure that its universities get their rightful share from national resources and get the funds that they need to run their institutions.
But in a way, this much should have been expected. After all, all political parties passed the landmark 18th Amendment laws that handed power from the centre to the provinces. Due to this legislation, education was now a provincial subject and the HEC was just a part of the process of granting provincial autonomy.
“Dictatorships and their sycophants always prefer centralisation under vague, false and arrogant arguments that the provinces do not have the ability to manage their affairs,” he argued. Democrats, on the other hand, struggle for provincial autonomy.
Haider stressed that the provinces were better equipped to manage their own affairs than those sitting in Islamabad and “messing up things with their remote control”.
The 18th Amendment allows the provinces to deal directly with other governments and loaning institutions.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 13th, 2011.
As the debate rages on the end to the Higher Education Commission, a ruling party representative attempted to argue some advantages to the provinces managing university affairs.
“The discrimination against students from Sindh can now be limited,” said Taj Haider, who is the Pakistan Peoples Party’s man in Sindh. “Everyone from a poor student to vice chancellors will not have to run to Islamabad to get small things done and now the biggest of problems can now be tackled locally.”
Haider argued in a statement issued on Monday, that when Sindh forms its own Higher Education Commission it will ensure that its universities get their rightful share from national resources and get the funds that they need to run their institutions.
But in a way, this much should have been expected. After all, all political parties passed the landmark 18th Amendment laws that handed power from the centre to the provinces. Due to this legislation, education was now a provincial subject and the HEC was just a part of the process of granting provincial autonomy.
“Dictatorships and their sycophants always prefer centralisation under vague, false and arrogant arguments that the provinces do not have the ability to manage their affairs,” he argued. Democrats, on the other hand, struggle for provincial autonomy.
Haider stressed that the provinces were better equipped to manage their own affairs than those sitting in Islamabad and “messing up things with their remote control”.
The 18th Amendment allows the provinces to deal directly with other governments and loaning institutions.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 13th, 2011.