Gilgit [PoK], October 8 (ANI): Students of Gilgit’s Karakoram International University (KIU) are sad over the unreasonable payment hike and staged a protest in opposition to it, reported Dawn.

KIU college students on Friday staged a protest, blocking University Road for hours in opposition to payment hikes and administrative mismanagement.

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They slammed the college administration for messing up its sources, and burdening the poor college students by growing the payment with out offering them amenities, reported Dawn.

The protestors mentioned that the college administration had suspended the admissions of many college students and registered FIR in opposition to them for protesting for his or her rights.

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Protesting college students chanted slogans in opposition to the vice chancellor and the college administration, reported Dawn.

They mentioned billions of rupees, supplied by the federal authorities, Higher Education Commission and Gilgit Baltistan authorities to the college are being misused by the college administration.

Students searching for greater schooling resented the alleged payment hike within the college tuition payment to the tune of 134-150 per cent.

A father or mother standing in solidarity with 1000’s of scholars mentioned, “The whole region is crushed under inflation. The poor strata are breaking under the high prices. There is a two-fold increase in the prices. The students and people here are victims of a double whammy. In this scenario, increasing fees to the tune of 134-150 per cent is a stark attempt to crush the students and their parents and deprive students of education.”

Amid skyrocketing inflation and the absence of different greater schooling establishments within the area, the scholars haven’t any different possibility however to proceed their research on the college.

The impoverished area of Gilgit Baltistan has only some greater schooling institutions–the unprecedented payment hike has definitely dashed all hopes of scholars and their mother and father to the bottom.

Notably, KIU is the one public-sector college within the area, the place greater than 10,000 native college students are enrolled.

The apathetic perspective of the native administration and the college officers has damaged the hopes and aspirations of 1000’s of kids. (ANI)

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