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Heavy rains affect academic activities
KARACHI, Aug 23: The
heavy rains on Wednesday caused significant suspension of academic activities at
the educational institutions across the City, including schools, colleges and
universities, while the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) and DHA had
announced school holiday on Wednesday due to heavy rains, measured as 80mm,
claming 9 lives of the people in the City.
However, CDGK did not announce
school holiday on Thursday, following the worse civic situations in the city due
to heavy rains.
While the private schools associations of the city, including
Private School Managements Association (PSMA) and All Private Schools Management
Association Sindh (APSMAS) proposed the authority concerned that the schools
should be remained close on Thursday due to worse situation of city due to heavy
rains.
Till the filing of this report no confirm announcement for school
holiday was made by the CDGK but has predicted for such order in case of further
rainfall at night. Private School Management associations however supported to
remain close on Thursday as well to avoid any possible loss of life, pleading
that rain water could be washed out from the main roads, but they are still in
suburb areas, it would be very difficult for students to come to schools in this
situation.
Although, the University of Karachi and its associated
educational institutions will remain open on Thursday, despite the fact that
these institutions on Wednesday, opened officially, reported to have zero
percent attendance of students, teachers and employees.
The torrential rains
starting from Tuesday night till Wednesday afternoon (12pm) did not give a
chance to the administrations of the academic institutions to resume their
academic activities.
Whereas, zero percent attendance of the students was
reported at the institutions especially at the private and public schools,
because heavy rains forced the parents of such students even not to think about
sending their children to schools in such a bad weather of the
city.
Conversely, the academic activities at Dow University of Health
Sciences (DUHS) and its affiliated institutions, including Dow Medical College
(DMC), Sindh Medical College (SMC) and Dr Ishrat-ul-Ebad Institute of Oral
Health Sciences, had already been suspended, following the clash between two
rival students groups at SMC last week. As per past experience the largest
institution of the provincial capital, University of Karachi suffered lot due to
the heavy rains. The presence of the academic and non-academic staff of
university was reported zero at the campus, while administrative staff of the KU
also reported absent due to pouring rains.
"The University of Karachi and its
associated educational institutions of the city will remain open on Thursday
despite the bad weather. The decision of opening the university was taken just
to achieve the target of students' 46 weeks of academic duration," the KU Vice
Chancellor Prof Dr Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui said on
Wednesday.
Some parts of the university was depicting the view of ponds with
rain water, while the area of the KU Muskan gate was inundated with the rain
water, causing great trouble especially for pedestrians, entering to the
varsity. Likewise the faculty of arts was badly affected by the heavy rains,
portraying scene of lake, affecting the entrance of some important departments
of the KU, including International Relations, Urdu, English, Sindhi, and General
History etc.
While, till the filling of this report no institution, including
the Federal Urdu University, NED University, Sir Syed University and Sir Syed
University announced holiday on Thursday on account of the heavy rains. The nation
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