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JSSF warns of protest drive at MUET
HYDERABAD, Feb 15(Dawn): The Jeay Sindh Students' Federation, Mehran University
of Engineering and Technology unit, has accused the university administration of
malpractices and warned that if its 22-point charter of demand was not
immediately accepted, they will launch a protest movement from
Monday.
Speaking at a news conference at the press club on Wednesday,
MUET JSSF president Abdul Razzaq Jamali said that due to introduction of
self-finance scheme for admissions, the classrooms were overcrowded and the
students had to sit on stairs to hear lectures.
He said that the
admission fees was being increased by Rs2,000 every year as a result a new
entrant now had to pay Rs16,000 as admission fee and Rs4,000 as hostel
fee.
He said that there was acute shortage of books and sitting
arrangements in the central library where only 70 chairs were available for over
6,000 students. He said that no newspapers, magazines or journals were available
in the library.
He alleged that only 50 out 70 point buses were available
for the students. The JSSF leader pointed out that the Sindh Governor had
announced 20 additional point buses for the university but only 12 buses were
purchased.
He wondered where the money for remaining buses had gone and
demanded a judicial inquiry into the matter.
He said that due to shortage
of hostel accommodation, a large number of students were forced to live in
hotels or rented houses.
He said that unlike the Sindh University, no
book fair was ever held in the MUET, where students could purchase books at
discount.
Accusing the controller of examinations of malpractices, he
said that fake mark sheets and certificates were being issued with impunity and
added that even the vice-chancellor had admitted the fact. He said that
announcement of results was always delayed by six months but a student could
know his result immediately by paying Rs10 to the concerned clerk.
The
JSSF leader lamented that while the auditorium of the university was available
to the friends of vice-chancellor and teachers for holding marriage ceremonies,
it was not available to the students for holding any function.
Similarly,
he said, the ambulance remained in the use of the hostel provost and his family
but it was not used to take an ailing student to a hospital.
He said that
there was acute shortage of water and washrooms and the students had to form
queue outside the washroom.
Mr Jamali said that if any student raised
voice against the problems, his parents were summoned and threatened by the
university administration.
UNIVERSITY VERSION:
Rejecting the
allegations, a spokesman of the university said in a statement that
self-financing scheme was in vogue in all the universities in the country and
that fees had never been increased by the MUET.
He said that required
books and research journals were available in the library and a committee of
deans had been appointed to improve the working of examination branch.
He
said that the federal government had been moved to provide funds for the
construction of more hostels and two doctors had been appointed at the boys'
hostel and one at the girls' hostel.
He said that the purpose of inviting
the parents of the students was to apprise them about the progress of their
children.
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| Education News | | Updated: 24 May, 2012 |
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