PESHAWAR: The Federation of All Public Sector Universities Administrative Officers Association has urged the provincial government to implement the University Model Act, 2015, to stop`illegal practices`in the institutions of higher learning.

Speaking at a news conference at the press club on Wednesday, the association`s president Mohammad Ilyas Khan said the act was approved about two months ago but it was yet to be implemented.

He said in the absence of the law affairs of the universities were run illegally.

`The act was approved unanimously, therefore, there is no reason to delay its implementation any longer.

Flanked by the association`s general secre-tary Noor Zada and other members, Ilyas Khan warned that some people were still opposed to the law as the amended act was against their interests. `A handful of people are trying to restore the previous one,` he added.

ILyas Khan gave credit to the provincial government for amending the University Model Act in the best interest of the universities and the employees, meeting a longstanding demand of the administrative staff.

Expressing satisfaction over the power sharing of all stakeholders in the universities senate and syndicates, he said the decision would help ensure appointing right man for the right job.

The universities` body leader expressed concern over the appointment of teaching staff on the administrative posts in different varsities and said it was injustice both with the universi-ties and the students.

The teachers, he said should focus on teaching and research and the administrative of ficers should be given free hand to pay full attention to solution to the problems.

`We have always raised slogans for rights of our community and welfare of universities but the successive governments didn`t pay attention,` Saifullah Khan, the association`s general secretary for University of Peshawar chapter, said. He said teachers were supposed to pay attention to basic duties of research and studies to prepare the new generations for future.

Since the approval of the amended act, he said only one university had accommodated the administrative staff on the relevant seats while in the rest of universities the teaching staff had occupied the posts in violation of the law.