FAISALABAD, Jan 7: The management of National University of Textile Engineering has threatened 150 students of First Year class that they will be expelled if they did not quit protest.

Notices have been dispatched to the residential addresses of the students who were admitted just a month ago.

The administration had expelled 12 students on Dec 28 when they refused to end their protest against its policies, especially increase in tuition fee.

The students claimed that the university management with the connivance of All-Pakistan Textile Mills Association and government officials were conspiring to grab the college land and convert it into a private educational institution to save taxes. The APTMA and private management of the college had increased tuition fee from Rs34,000 to Rs83,000 without any justification.

The students had been protesting for the last three-and-half-a-month against the increase in fee, conversion of the college into private university.