HYDERABAD: Govt College Kali Mori principal Dr Nasiruddin Shaikh and representatives of the college’s alumni on Thursday announced that the year-long centennial celebrations of the institution would start on Oct 2 when it was entering it 100th year.

Accompanied by the alumni’s president-elect, Abdul Rehman Rajput and general secretary-elect Prof Salim Mughal, Mr Sheikh told a press conference at the local press club that it was one of the oldest colleges of Pakistan.

He said the college had given too much to the country but did not get what it deserved from the authorities concerned. Other such colleges were upgraded to a university but this college had long been waiting for the status, he said.

Regarding the start of the celebrations, he said that a torch-bearing rally would be held on Oct 2, when an oldest surviving student will hand over the torch to a student of the present 100th batch as a mark of symbolic transfer of the institution to the future generation.

Published in Dawn, September 23rd, 2016