N-League's Rana-Mian duo in for 'improving edu'
By: Ch Aamer Waqas
LAHORE - Dust of wrong-doings by a PML-N MNA and
Punjab Minister for Prisons has hardly settled yet, and now a
Rana-Mian duo has surfaced to take control of a women’s college, and
is bent upon securing jobs of their chosen ones at every cost after
recruiting people with political affiliations residing in their
constituencies.
Deputy Speaker Punjab Assembly Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan and MNA Mian
Marghoob Ahmed have been accused by the female staff of Government
Degree College for Women (Gulshan Ravi), and the Higher Education
Department for putting pressure on them and ‘politically
influencing’ the Department in order to keep men and women from
their constituencies in their jobs. “After an initial failure, they
have gone to the extent that the College - constructed with the
grant of the Federal government, and later adopted by the Department
- should be given autonomy, which seems to be a dream only as
nothing tangible has been done in this regard so far, and the
Education Department has declined to move ahead with the political
proposal,” confided a source, privy to the developments, which are
continuing for quite some time now “with no attention being paid by
the highest offices of the province,” as averred by the source.
“After facing opposition from Principal College Farzana Saleem who
declined to act as per the whims and wishes of the duo, they have
managed to get her transferred, and District Officer (Education)
Muhammad Saeed Saghoo has given the additional charge of
administrator College till a regular incumbent is posted,” said the
officer, while adding that the Department had received complaints
about her failure in managing the College.
The College sources have confided that 26 males with political
affiliations have been recruited so far, who are not observing
discipline of the College. “No doubt, males are serving in other
women colleges, but the male-female ratio is never this high, and
there is always a strict disciplinary check on their character.
However, men with political backing rarely observe the code of
conduct, and it is also true of this College,” opined the source
The
Nation:May 24,2009 |
