Without HEC funds, SALU having a hard time paying employees

The university has to pay around Rs15 million in salaries every month.

SUKKUR:

A deficit of Rs200 million in the current fiscal year has made it increasingly difficult for Shah Abdul Latif University (SALU) Khairpur to pay its employees.

University officials expressed these concerns during a meeting chaired by SALU vice chancellor Prof. Dr Parveen Shah on Thursday. Dr Shah informed officials that the university has still not received its share of funds for the last quarter of 2011 from the Higher Education Commission, and was therefore facing a hard time paying Rs15 million in salaries to its employees every month.

Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah has assured the university of support, added Dr Shah.



SALU will offer more seats in certain popular subjects in the upcoming admissions process, and MPhil and PhD programmes will be simultaneously offered as well. Students will also be given a chance to take diploma courses at the university from next year.

The university also decided to generate funds through its Date Palm Research Institute, which provides counselling and training to farmers of the area and also acts as a liaison with the market.

SALU will also seek help from its alma mater, and an alumni association would soon be established.



The vice chancellor also asked chairmen and deans to put forward their plans to meeting the financial challenges faced by the university.

He said that to raise money, books on the lives of renowned Sindhi poets  Sachal Sarmast, Rozay Dhani, Shaikh Ayaz and Dr Tanveer Abbasi will be published.

Talking about the recent spate of violence in Pakistan, Dr Shah added that teachers have to control the “wave of extremism” in the country by promoting tolerance among their students.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 23^rd, 2012.