The Sindh College Education Department has announced sweeping reforms for provincial colleges, placing student counselling services and a ban on unnecessary mobile phone use on campuses at the center of its policy overhaul, ARY News reported on Wednesday. The department will launch a new counselling program by hiring education experts, bureaucrats, and professionals to guide students, while a formal notification banning excessive mobile phone use is expected soon. The decisions were taken during a meeting chaired by the Secretary of College Education, Nadeem Memon, where officials reviewed teacher absenteeism, weak monitoring mechanisms, and substandard construction work in several colleges. Crackdown on Teacher AbsenteeismThe meeting was informed that 44 male and 36 female teachers have remained absent for long periods. The department decided to take immediate legal action, forwarding the cases to the Chief Secretary of Sindh and directing that public notices be published in newspapers.