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Radical steps urged to change Thana culture
LAHORE:
SPEAKERS at a seminar “Vigilance
Committees and Thana Culture Reforms” stress upon the need of
drastic measures to reform the Thana culture.
The interactive moot was held at the
Punjab University, which launched a stage to get feedback form
different segments of society before implementing this programme, as
announced by the Punjab chief minister recently.
The speakers suggested that highly
qualified people including university and college teachers should be
included in the vigilance committees.
According to a press statement,
Punjab Education Minister Mujtaba Shuja ur Rehman addressing the
seminar said, “The credit of free courts goes to Chief Minister
Shahbaz Sharif and now our other institutions will also become
strong and free of despotism”.
Senator Pervaiz Rasheed, MPA Khawaja
Imran Nazir, Lahore District Bar Association former President
Manzoor Qadir, PU VC Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran, Additional Registrar Dr
Aurangzeb Alamgir and law, political science, history and science
students were present.
The minister said PU was the biggest
university of the country and suggestions of its students would be
considered before these committees were set up.
He said the CM would monitor these
committees and only well-respected and educated people would be
their members.
Speaking on the occasion, PU VC Prof
Dr Mujahid Kamran requested the CM to help PU teachers to get their
PhD degrees, saying PhD teachers’ ratio was very low in the
university. He said that CM should make PU his centre of governance
and use this platform to bring about positive changes in the
province and society.
Manzoor Qadir said that these
committees should be based on impartiality with proper check and
balance on them.
Students opined that the committees
be empowered to questions SHOs while a helpline be set up for the
people.
Most of the speakers viewed that
influential of any area should not be included in the Vigilance
Committees rather educated people be preferred.
The News: staff report Saturday, May 16, 2009
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