Punjab Higher Education Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer on Monday directed that a high-level committee be constituted to probe the allegations regarding irregularities in state’s aided and private colleges.
Hayer, chairing a meeting with Principal Secretary Jaspreet Talwar, DPI (Colleges) Rajiv Kumar Gupta and other officers to review the Department’s functioning, also took the stock of the current position of the Centralized Admission Portal. He instructed the officers to ensure that all the government colleges and aided should be taken on board and no college should be left in this regard.
The Minister told the officers that the curriculum of various courses should be revised as per the needs of the current day environment, need of industry, modern day requirements, and a meeting of the Vice-Chancellors should be called and immediate steps should be taken to review the syllabus of various programmes.
Reviewing various Budget Schemes for the development of the state’s Government colleges, Hayer asked the officials to implement these schemes for the welfare of the students and ensure money allocated for the various tasks should be judiciously used.