Evening Directorate’s Unfair Policies At Ku

Some of my friends who are the students of Mass Communication Department in the evening at University of Karachi regretfully told me about mismanagement and wrong decisions by the evening directorate how badly the students are entertained!

They said that they are the students of MA (Final Year) 3rd semester. From the very first semester, they have continuously been observing that evening directorate always announces tuition and examination fees when last 10 days of any month are left! Usually the dates for fees submission are 20 to 24th of a month in which a semester starts! It is noticeable that people usually bag their salaries amid the starting 10 days of a month and a large piece of their salaries is spent till the date of 20th of a month! Hence it is approximately impossible to arrange fees on above mentioned dates!

On the other hand, if a person cannot submit their fees till the given or suggested dates, the evening directorate immediately issues another date for fees submission whereas late fees charges or fines are also included in total fee which is one more extreme or bad situation for the students!

One thing to remember is that the students in the morning pay their fees approximately 3000 and some rupees whereas the students in the evening programs pay Rs. 13,500 approximately for the same disciplines whereas some other charges are excluded of the fees! Also the late fee in the morning is not so much but evening students are burdened approximately 1500 rupees after one week and one hundred rupees are added every week for late fee unless a student pays his fee which is condemnable! Apparently it feels that evening directorate plays a double game with the students to earn a lot of money! It is also noticeable that students in the evening are not given or provided any facility even they pay a huge amount of money whereas students in the morning avail various facilities and one of them is KU points or buses mainly which every student thinks is a dire need for them!

Apart from these, the staff of the evening directorate who collects fees from the students usually leaves their seats earlier than their official timings and students who are at the office to submit their fees are said to pay or submit their fees another day which shows a complete disorder at University of Karachi! Furthermore, the timings for fees submission are conflicting with the class timings and the students have to leave their classes or precious lectures by their teachers due to inconvenient or unsuitable timings!

It is said that those who are doing jobs join evening programs but the situation is not so! A lot of students who could not take admission in the morning due to any mishap or problem are learning in the evening in abundance and they are compelled to pay a huge amount of fee unfortunately and KU administration doesn’t feel any pity for them!

I request to the concerned authorities to please consider evening students’ plights and don’t play with their emotions and feelings and provide them their basic needs and always issue those dates on which students can easily pay their fees! Have mercy upon the students!