KA RACH I: The provincial government on Friday allocated 100-acre land to establish a public sector university in Hyderabad under a federal government charter.

A senior of ficial of the land utilisation department of the Sindh government formally handed over the allotment letter of the land to Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori at Governor House.

According to a statement, the governor vowed that the construction work of the Federal Institute for Technology and Management Sciences, or Hyderabad University, would start soon and it would fulfil a long-standing demand of residents of Hyderabad for a degree awarding institute.

It said that the Sindh government allotted the land in Deh Ganjo Takur, Taluka Latifabad, for the university.

In 2018, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan had joined the Pakistan Tehreeki-Insaf-led government and it was one of their demand that the federal government set up a university in Hyderabad.

In November 2021, the PTI and its allies managed to get passed a bill in the National Assembly but the project could not move forward due to non-allotment of land by the PPP government in Sindh. In April, the MQM-P parted ways with the PTI and joined the Pakistan Democratic Movement-led coalition government. It signed separate Charter of Rights with the PPP and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and one of the demands was establishment of Hyderabad University.