Government College University (GCU) Lahore Vice Chancellor Dr Khaleequr Rehman has reduced the hostel fees by 35 percent in order to facilitate the outstation students, Pakistan Today has learnt. The notification of revised dues had been issued for Quaid-e-Azam and Allama Iqbal hostels and the new fee structure was implemented. The GCU vice chancellor has also waived off the hostel admission fees, miscellaneous dues and welfare funds.
Chairing a meeting of GCU hostel committee on Thursday, GCU Hostel Committee Chairman Dr Khalid Pervaiz said that it might be the first time in the history of any educational institution that the initiative of fee-reduction had been taken. He said that GCU Hostels had a very nominal fee already and amid the sky-rocketing inflation and education budget cuts, it was fairly difficult to facilitate students.
The Vice Chancellor also directed the hostel superintendents to not depreciate the living quality of students in the hostels due to the fee-reduction. According to the Vice Chancellor, the students that reside in GCU from far off areas to study deserve special attention from the administration.
Dr Khaleeq also said that the university would also increase scholarships for deserving students through its Endowment Fund Trust. He also appreciated the efforts of the newly-appointed Quaid-e-Azam Hostel Superintendent Abdul Waheed and New Hostel Superintendent Khadim Ali Khan for the welfare of students. GCU students expressed their gratitude over the fee-reduction.
GCU celebrates National Plantation Day: The Government College University (GCU) Lahore Botany Department celebrated National Plantation Day by planting saplings in the university premises on Thursday. GCU Vice Chancellor (VC) Dr Khaleequr Rehman inaugurated the plantation campaign by planting a sapling at the GCU Scholar’s Gardens.
Dr Khaleeq announced while speaking at the ceremony that GCU would plant as many as 5,000 saplings of indigenous plants at the GCU Kala Shah Kaku campus to create a healthy and favourable learning environment as learning was tightly-knit with nature. He also emphasised the importance of environmentalism along with academics and extra-curricular activities. He said that it was the students’ individual as well as social duty to eliminate pollution and to keep the environment clean. Students and faculty from the GCU Botany Department, Dr Zaheer Ahmed Khan and a large number of students from other departments participated in the National Plantation Day. The VC also encouraged all departments of the university to participate in the plantation activity.
