The budget of the Higher Education Commission was drastically reduced.
The federal government has made a big cut in the current budget of the Higher Education Commission for the financial year 2024-25 (perpetual budget) and it has been reduced to 25 billion rupees and the budget has been limited to federal universities only. A billion.
Now the Federal Higher Education Commission will not be able to fund the universities of the provinces and the provinces will fund their own universities. In this regard, the Ministry of Finance has also written a letter to the Higher Education. The Higher Education Commission had requested 126 billion for more than 160 government universities of the country.
In this regard, Chairman of Higher Education Commission Dr. Mukhtar while talking to Express said that letters have been received from the Ministry of Finance regarding the reduction of development grant while the Planning Commission has also written letters to the Prime Minister on this matter. are The provinces and the federation should cooperate.
