LAHORE: The Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU) has notified students of its Lahore campus to get enrolled in the main Multan campus as the sub-campus in Lahore has been declared illegal.
The longstanding contention between the students and the varsity seems to have come to an end after several protests were held by students and assurances given by the government to safeguard students’ future.
According to the Higher Education Commission (HEC), around 17 sub-campuses had been functioning under public-sector universities, mostly in Punjab.
The Lahore campus of BZU was established under public-private partnership in 2012. However, in 2015 the HEC declared the sub-campus illegal, saying it did not fulfil the minimum requirements set by the commission. The decision led to several protests by students of the campus, oftentimes blocking the Canal Road where the sub-campus is located.
An advisory issued by BZU Multan states the university syndicate took the decision to enrol students of the sub-campus in a meeting on November 11 in lieu of the orders of the Lahore High Court. “All the students concerned are directed to get themselves enrolled at the Office (specially established for the students) located at Institute of Social Sciences, main campus, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan till December 20 on prescribed enrolment form available at www.bzu.edu.pk.”
The students have been directed to attach a demand draft of Rs1,000 in favour of BZU treasurer as the processing fee.
The university will administer examination on December 22. Only those students would be accommodated whose data had been provided by the sub-campus.
The advisory states: “The students will be enrolled in a semester of the continuing programme/degrees as determined by BZU based on the results submitted by each student.
Only those students will be considered for enrolment whose record has already been provided by management of disputed BZU Lahore campus, under the Court Order dated 31-08-2016”.
As per the record provided in compliance of court order, the passed out students are also directed to get themselves enrolled till December 20 for onward processing of their special examination and award of degrees. The date of special examination shall be announced on December 22.
Meanwhile, some students would be accommodated in Lahore by the HEC and the provincial higher education body – HED.
Students of BS Technology and DPT will be accommodated through the HEC and HED Punjab in relevant institutions of Lahore as per the information supplied by the representative of HEC in the 4/2016 meeting of the BZU, Multan Syndicate.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 5th, 2016.
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