Students blocked Canal Road in Lahore on Monday for hours, heading to large trade jams. PHOTO: EXPRESS
LAHORE: Scores of vibrated students of Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Lahore Campus took to a streets in criticism opposite a preference of a university and rejection of admissions in other universities.
Basis of protest
The Higher Education Commission had announced a BZU Lahore Campus bootleg in 2015 after a sub-campus, determined underneath public-private partnership in 2012, unsuccessful to do a smallest mandate set by a commission. The preference has led to several protests by students of a campus on a Canal Road.
Earlier in a month, BZU administration told a Lahore campus students to get themselves enrolled during a categorical campus as a sub-campus in Lahore had been announced illegal.
However, a dual programmes being offering during a sub-campus, a BS Technology programme and a Doctor of Pharmacy (Physiotherapy) were not shifted to a Multan campus as these programmes were not taught in a pronounced campus.
Instead, a 1,200 students enrolled in these dual programmes were told by a BZU officials that they would be certified to University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore and University of Health Sciences.
Time for action
The students blocked Canal Road in front of a BZU Lahore Campus and shouted slogans opposite a check in removing acknowledgment in a pronounced programmes and rumours that these students would not be certified during varsities in Lahore.
While vocalization to The Express Tribune, a tyro Ali said, “We have been watchful for a past 5 months to get acknowledgment though now we are conference that UET and UHS have denied admissions.” He pronounced they were protesting since a students had suffered for months and now were being denied admissions.
The protesters have vowed to retard a highway indefinitely until their final are met. Till filing of this report, a Canal Road remained blocked.
Traffic disaster
A large trade jam was witnessed on all vital thoroughfares of a city due to a criticism of students of BZU causing bother to public.
Bumper-to-bumper besiege was witnessed on Canal Road, Ferozpur Road, Mall Road and other thoroughfares with commuters stranded in trade for hours.
DIG Traffic’s orator pronounced 150 additional trade wardens were deployed during a site to obstruct trade on other roads to say well-spoken upsurge of traffic.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 20th, 2016.
Article source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/1268319/admission-denied-protesting-bzu-students-cause-traffic-mess/