LAHORE, Oct 13: The Government College University is in a fix on the issue of registration of its various students as the Lahore board’s online registration software says the candidates have already been registered.

Over 30 top scorers of the 2012 matriculation annual examination, who got admission to first-year classes at the GCU, have been taking classes since the beginning of the ongoing academic session.

Board’s last date for admitting students and submitting their registration fee is Oct 17, while the respective institutions can submit their students’ registration return to the board till Oct 26.

The GCU administration has brought to the notice of the Lahore board administration the problem in registering their students. The board chairman and the secretary have assured the GCU that the issue will be resolved.

GCU Registrar Anjum Nisar told Dawn the students had also complained that a group of private colleges, which had got them registered online, was demanding around Rs50,000 for the cancellation of registration of each student. He said the board chairman and the secretary had promised that the board would play its role and that no student would be asked to pay anything to the private college.

He also alleged the private group of colleges had registered students on the basis of admission forms submitted by the students.

GCU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Khaleequr Rahman said the university was facing problems in registering some 30 to 35 students with the Lahore board for intermediate classes. He said the GCU students’ online registration had been claimed by the Punjab Group of Colleges.

Dr Rahman said it was mala fide on the part of the Punjab Group of Colleges to get students registered at the earliest when the board’s last date for students’ registration was Oct 17.

When contacted early this week, Punjab Group of Colleges’ spokesperson Tahira Qasim said the Punjab Group of Colleges had never tried to cheat any student, parent or organisation. She said the admission forms carried respective students and their parents’ signatures.

She said: “We never got any student registered with the Lahore board until and unless, he or she submits his/her fee.” The students, who get over 92 per cent marks, are given scholarship and they are supposed to pay only a token fee of Rs10.

Ms Qasim said the students who would ask for the cancellation of admission and registration, would be required to pay first installment of full fee, which was around Rs30,000, as well as registration fee given to the Lahore board.

“The admission form clearly states about payment of dues by the student, if he asks for the cancellation of dues after 15 days of admission.”

Ms Qasim vehemently refuted the allegation that the registration of students in question were merely based on the basis of admission forms.

“We have all the record – admission forms and copies of admission fee receipts,” she said.

Lahore Board Chairman Nasrullah Virk said the GCU administration did complain about the problem in registering their

students online claiming that those students were already registered with the board. He said the board had asked the GCU administration to send a reference in writing so that the board could proceed further.

Since the GCU had so far not sent the reference, he said, the board would check students’ attendance that where they were studying.