HEC Budget Cut by 50%

Higher education body’s budget slashed by 50%

Introduction & Detail:

HEC is Experiencing some technical and major problems from last years. This causes the huge impact on the proficiency and working of the Higher Education Commission HEC. After everything happened it is a great obstacle for the HEC to face in their way of progress because of this budget cut out upto the 50% for the recent two years.

When the administration is declaring its financial plan, advancement spending plan of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has been cut by half for the second continuous monetary year keeping in mind the end goal to control costs.

The government had before reported Rs35 billion for 63 new and 105 old undertakings under the Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) spending plan for the present year yet this proposed sum has now been lessened to Rs28 billion on headings of leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, who has recommended a general cut on PSDP financing.

Resultantly, this huge cut has harmed the HEC's designs and furthermore stopped a few vital tasks of development of new colleges, staff advancement, and so on.

As indicated by sources in HEC, in spite of the defense mandate, Rs15.8 billion had been discharged before the finish of second from last quarter while spending plan for the final quarter is to be reported with the government spending plan.

Also, for the following financial year the arranging commission has proposed Rs46.22 billion worth of improvement spending plan for the HEC with no say of the deficiency that will have affect on the colleges and their ventures.

In like manner, sources likewise expressed that in light of the new spending plan, half supports have been cut from progressing ventures while funds of new tasks have been cut by about 65%. These extreme slices have been made to oblige the 168 activities that will be specifically affected from the declaration.

"To keep the show running, the HEC has organized the undertakings and made an unobtrusive begin for all the new tasks while the speed of progressing ventures has additionally been backed off," said an official aware of the advancement.

The undertakings affected from the cut incorporate arrangement of transport offices to female understudies of all general society area colleges; foundation of University of Chitral; foundation of National Center in Basic Sciences and a staff improvement program to be begun for college educators has likewise been put on hold. While a few other affirmed ventures like foundation of National Center in Cyber Security, National Center for Human Nutrition and National Center in Robotics Automation still anticipate financing.

As per the training commission, the administration needed a one-time hatchet on the advancement spending then it asked for that it ought to be permitted to organize extends in the request of significance.

"Taking a gander at the pace, we quit subsidizing for continuous activities which were not demonstrating adequate advance," said the authority. "The new tasks were additionally organized."