FAISALABAD, Dec 11: The administration of the National Textile University on Thursday closed down the campus indefinitely.

A notice issued by NTU Dean Dr Zuber said: “the administration has decided to close the university till further orders because of unlawful activities and illegal intervention of some trouble-makers in varsity affairs. All the students are directed to vacate the hostels immediately.”

According to the dean, the students “are playing in the hands of some negative elements who are bent upon to disrupt the academic peace on the campus.”

The students’ representatives criticized the decision to close down the campus. They announced that the move of the university administration to get the hostels forcibly vacated would be resisted.

Earlier, the students protested against the increase in the number of seats and introduction of self-finance scheme.

They boycotted their classes and held a demonstration in front of dean’s offices for the third day on Wednesday.

They chanted slogans against the university administration for implementing ‘callous and anti-students policies’ to collect money.

They claimed that the university administration had increased the number of seats by 100 per cent and also allocated 150 seats for the self-finance scheme at the rate of Rs200,000 per student.

The demanded that the government should take over the control of the institution from the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association which has made one of the prestigious educational institutions of the country a ‘profit-earning company’.

Faisal Naeem, Wasim Randhawa and Muhammad Abid said that the students would continue their struggle till the accpetance of their demands.