KARACHI, April 12: Students of the Dawood College of Engineering and Technology (DCET) on Saturday staged a protest demonstration in front of a local hotel, where college administration was holding a seminar on “Process Industry of Pakistan: Preparing for Challenges Ahead”.

Board on two college buses, the DCET students first tried to enter the hotel where the seminar was in progress but after facing resistance by hotel security staff, they held the demonstration in front of the main gate of the hotel, chanting slogans against the DCET Principle, Saleem Chaudhry.

Federal Education Minister Mrs Zubaida Jalal was scheduled to inaugurate the seminar, but owing to some other engagements, Sindh Education Minister Irfanullah Marwat spoke at the ceremony.

Carrying banners and placards inscribed with demands for provision of water in the college campus, equipment at college labs and hiring of qualified permanent teaching staff, they demanded of the authorities to revamp the DCET.

Heavy contingents of the police and rangers along with administrative officials and college teachers tried to appease the protesting students, who refused to disperse unless the DCET principle, himself, gave assurance to them regarding their demands.

The DCET principle, at last, spoke to the students and assured them of holding a meeting at college, after that they dispersed peacefully.—PPI