HYDERABAD, Sept 27: Tension continues to prevail in the Liaquat Medical University Hospital (LMUH) due to the police violence on the female students living in the university hostel on Wednesday night.

A large number of female students had gone to visit a local hotel officially but they reached the hostel 15 minutes late and were not allowed to enter it by the hostel warden.

On the warden’s insistence, the girls were also subjected to violence by the police.

The university authorities have tried to hush up the matter and held talks with both male and female students but no compromise could be made as the students were demanding the removal of the hostel warden.

A group of male students told this correspondent on Friday that the female students were being issued threats that if they did not keep quiet, their hostel allotments would be cancelled.

They demanded that the hostel warden should be removed otherwise the scope of the protest would be widened.

BOYCOTT: The house job doctors of the Liaquat Medical University boycotted the OPD and wards for the second consecutive day on Friday in protest demanding an increase in their salaries on the pattern of the other three provinces.

The house job doctors also held protest meetings, which were addressed by Dr Shaukat Panhwar, Dr Fayaz Rajpar, and Dr Khalid Memon.

They appealed to the president, the Sindh governor, the Sindh minister, and the secretary, health, to fix their salary at par with the house job doctors of the other three provinces.

EOBI: The director general, Employees Old-Age Benefit Institution (EOBI), Javed Rasheed, has said that the federal government had promulgated an ordinance under which the self-assessment scheme had been introduced to make the contribution of the workers transparent and to provide more facilities to the employers and the employees.

He was addressing industrialists and other members of the business community at the secretariat of the Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HCCI) the other day.

He said those who adopted this system voluntarily, their accounts and other documents will not be scrutinized for two years.

He, however, made it clear that it had been made mandatory that all the outstanding dues must be paid before adoption of the self-assessment scheme.

He said that the rate of contribution had been reduced from five per cent on a salary of Rs5,000 to Rs150 per month.