PESHAWAR: A select committee of the provincial assembly on Tuesday approved the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Universities (Amendment) Bill 2016.

Chief Minister Pervez Khattak chaired a meeting of the select committee on the KP Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2016 here in the provincial assembly secretariat that approved the criteria for selection of the vice-chancellors in all public sector universities, according to a statement.

The recommendations seek different amendments to different sections and sub-sections of the draft Act that would be incorporated into the main law to be tabled in the provincial assembly. The meeting gave a nod to the model statute defining the jurisdiction of the Senate and syndicate. Provincial minister for law Imtiaz Shahid Quershi, senior minister Inayatullah Khan, special assistant to CM Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani, PA deputy speaker Dr Mehar Taj Roghani, other members of the committee and authorities concerned attended the meeting.-Bureau Report