Demand for PEC recognition

Demand for PEC recognition
Faisalabad: Students of the Government College University Faisalabad's bachelor of telecom engineering on Tuesday lifted their voice to demand recognition with the Pakistan Engineering Council.

The university administration, however, says the requirements for the PEC have been completed and a team is expected to visit the institute soon to give a go-ahead to the accreditation.

The students boycotted their classes and blocked traffic at main Imambargah, Narawala, Chiniot and Kutchery Bazaar chowks and demonstrated outside the press club.

The banners and placards they had held were inscribed with slogans highlighting their demand.

The students said the university had set June 30 as deadline for their discipline's accreditation with the PEC but the authorities failed to do so much to their disappointment.

They questioned the varsity administration's claim that they had fulfilled all requirements for the PEC recognition though, they said, the PEC website declared the course week.

They appealed to Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to take suo motu notice of the situation and direct the PEC to recognise the department.

Dr Shahid Mehboob Rana, the vice chancellor, said the varsity had fulfilled the requirements by recruiting a professor, two deputy directors, two assistant professors, nine lecturers and two lab engineers. He said they would join the institution within two to three days.

"The university has also provided nearly 2,500 books to the department and formed a contemporary lab to meet the other PEC requirement," he said. Dawn