RAHIM YAR KHAN: The Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Technology (KFUEIT) administration is forcibly collecting transport and internet fees from the students who are not utilising these facilities.

Parents of some of these students told a press conference here on Saturday that the KFUEIT had issued fee vouchers for the second semester and included Rs5,000 transport fee and Rs15 internet fee. They said their children did not use both facilities.

They said they met the university administration including the registrar and the director students affairs many times to solve the matter but to no avail. They said that when they tried to meet the vice chancellor, they were denied access.

They said the KFUEIT administration had increased the fees up to 150pc in the last few years. The varsity, they said, had failed to provide proper facilities to the students for laboratory experiments and the recent incident of an explosion in which 16 students were affected pointed to the way the institution was being run.

In April last, the parents said, a student was fined Rs1,5000 on the charges of using unfair means in examination and when he tried to see the VC, he was threatened by the registrar and later abused and tortured by security guards.

KFUEIT spokesperson Shahid Durrani said: “There are more than 5,500 students at the KFUEIT and all the students and their parents are welcome to visit campus, meet faculty members and pass on their feedback and concerns to the administration as and when required.

“Despite financial crisis, the University is taking every possible initiative to help students in their commuting with 12 buses and 4 coasters with half of them on a rental basis. The option of leasing was exercised after non availability of buses promised by the government of Punjab last year.”

He said he would discuss the matter with the departments concerned.

Published in Dawn, June 30th, 2019