There are various issues which the evening students have to face at the University of Karachi. One of the most crucial issues is unavailability of “points” (Karachi University buses).
Though the students in the evening programme pay their fees more than the morning students, they get no facilities unfortunately. For this, whenever the evening director was contacted, he evaded saying that the de facto evening programmes were based on self-finance. On the other hand, teachers in the evening don’t concentrate on taking classes or delivering the lectures as they take classes in the morning on daily basis.
A student organisation made its efforts to resolve the matter concerning transportation for the evening students and resultantly they succeeded to get four “points” although these are not enough for the students. Whenever any disturbance or disorder takes place in Karachi, these “points” are stopped immediately creating an extremely bad situation for the students as they come from various areas that are too far from the university.
They have to pay a lot of money when using public transport as compared with the Karachi University (KU) points that facilitate them in the shape of lower fares. When the students contact the authorities, they say that there is no such circular or regular law for the points and hence they all trade on this situation and do what they want creating trouble for the students.
Unavailability of lights is also the cause of concern for the evening students as some people take disadvantage of the condition and are found involved in illegal and immoral activities whereas snatching of money and mobiles is also growing.
The concerned authorities are requested to please ensure the flow of KU points so that students’ problems could be alleviated whereas availability of lights on main roads or places and in departments must be ensured so that all illegal and immoral activities could be stemmed which are damaging the dignity of an educational institute.
HAFIZ MUHAMMAD NOMAN
Karachi
