MULTAN: Subtract women students unless there is sufficient space to accommodate them. That is the commerce formula of the Government Post-Graduate College of Commerce, Multan, which has stopped offering admissions to female students.

The college started off in 90s in a rented building on Azmat Wasti Road.

The college offers classes up to post graduation to both male and female students.

A few months ago, the Punjab government handed over the college to the Higher Education Department from the control of Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (Tevta).

In recent years, when the college was upgraded to a post-graduate institute and the number of students also swelled, the Tevta administration did not arrange a permanent building for the college.

Then district coordination officer (DCO) Nasim Sadiq ordered shifting the building to the hostel of Government Civil Lines College in 2012, and also announced 10 kanals for the college in Hassan Parwana Colony.

Sources said that a summary was sent to the chief minister for the allocation of the land to the college. The approval has yet to be accorded as the land is being occupied by a member of the Provincial Assembly of the ruling party.

They said the college lacked a proper building, a laboratory and women teachers and because of the missing facilities, the administration decided not to offer admissions to female students as the existing building (hostel) was insufficient to accommodate the students.

They said that college was also facing the shortage of teachers as the teachers who are supposed to teach the classes of intermediate were also taking graduate and post-graduate classes.

Principle Khawaja Akhtar said that to adjust the commerce college the administration of Civil Lines College donated 125 chairs to the commerce college. He said that due to the lack of classrooms, only 450 students were offered admissions this year.

Colleges Director Shamim Arif Qureshi said it had been decided that the colleges established in rented buildings would be shifted to the available government buildings and the Government Post Graduate College was also shifted in building that was not being used.

He said that he was not aware about the status of land allocated for the college.