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HIGHLIGHTS
2020

Government College
University Lahore

How the poor are excluded from social mobility?

panel discussion on “How the innovation, conformity of colonial status poverty alleviation.
poor are excluded from social quo and utter dependence on donors Tooba Syed, an eminent gender
Amobility” was held here at had impeded development of the researcher, talked about protecting basic
Government College University country and encouraged suppression of rights of women and of the poor who
Lahore under the auspices of its the people at large. He also highlighted came to urban centers to seek work or
Economics Department. lack of coordination among government employment.
Eminent economists and rights departments and unavailability of Prof. Zaidi, VC GCU Lahore, Prof. Zaidi
activists from different educational authentic data for policy debate and deliberated upon the current policies to
institutions and research organizations research analysis. discover right models for inclusive growth
participated in the panel discussion, in Pakistan. He said that poverty was
moderated by Prof. Dr. Asghar Zaidi, the always caused by exclusion from
Vice Chancellor GC University Lahore. opportunity. Give the poor a chance and
In his keynote address, Prof. Dr. they will lift themselves out of poverty.
Nadeem ul Haque, the Vice Chancellor He appreciated the efforts of the
of Pakistan Institute of Development government that inspite of financial crunch
Economics (PIDE) Islamabad, and fiscal deficit, it was also pushing its
emphasized the importance of EHSAAS progamme for the welfare of the
PAGE 19 intellectual debate and research poor. He pledged to hold debates on these
headed by the leading educational
crucial topics of social and economic
institutions.
He stressed on involving academia, policies at GCU regularly to bridge the gap
between academia and policy-makers.
researchers and rights activists in Prof. Haque believed informal sector Both of the Vice Chancellors, in the end,
policy making, saying that there should gave boost to their economy, so it should agreed to enhance cooperation between
be academic and intellectual not be suppressed through heavy the two institutions through exchange of
background to all the political slogans. taxation. He also said that the ideas, faculty and students.
Prof. Haque gave an insight into the government couldn't end poverty Besides university's faculty deans and
economic system of Pakistan, saying through charity programmes; it academic heads, lawyer Usama Khawar,
that centralization of power, lack of immediately needed to devise polices to development practitioner Mr. Ammar
regulations and enforcement, enhance the productivity of the people Rashid and Mr. Zia Banday from PIDE
ineffective taxation system, absence of to increase the growth rate and for Islamabad participated in the discussion.

North Waziristan students visit GCU

delegation of students and Lahore on a study tour. The delegation had produced countless legendary
teachers from Frontier Corps visited various academic departments per sonalities, inc luding Allama
APublic School, Miranshah, of GCU and also met with Vice Muhammad Iqbal and Nobel Prize
Nor th Waziristan visited the Chancellor Prof. Dr. Asghar Zaidi. winners Dr Abdus Salam and Dr
Government College University, Prof Zaidi told the students that GCU Hargobind Khorana.