Srinagar, Apr 18 (KNS): A meeting of the Search Committee was conducted here today to consider induction of appropriate persons, with Sopore-centric view to the MET Board of Trustees against available slots. 

 

According to a statement, issued to Kashmir News Service (KNS), the committee was also vested with constituting of an Academic Council and Community Consultative Forum for the MET institutions in Sopore.

 

The committee comprised of G R Sufi, (IRS), former Commisioner Income Tax/Chief Information Commissioner, Raouf-ul-Hassan, IPS (Rtd), former IG Police, Ajaz Ahmed Kakroo, Former Deputy Commissioner (Baramula), Dr Farooq Kallo, Former Director Animal Husbandry, Kashmir, Prof Dr Altaf Pandit,  Department of Chemistry, Kashmir University and Masharib Gul Mufti  (IES), GM BSNL Kashmir

The statement reads that the nominations for Trustees, Academic Council and Community Consultative Forum were received through a community outreach initiative by the Trust. 

 

“The Panels of probables so drawn were placed before the Search Committee which, after thorough deliberations, selected an eminent educationist namely Prof Irshad Ahmed Wani (Former Director North Campus, University of  Kashmir) and Dr. Mohammad Yusuf Zargar, a renowned Agri scientist( Prof. Emeritus SKUAST) for induction as Trustees.”

 

It reads that a Community Consultative Forum comprising a wide spectrum of the civil society, and an Academic Council comprising academics from various disciplines were also constituted 

It further reads that the civil society at large has hailed this first-ever initiative where one of the oldest and most widely known Educational trusts in J&K has adopted an open, democratic and transparent mechanism in the selection of Trustees. (KNS)