Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 31: To get an instant feedback from the student community, Vice Chancellor University of Kashmir, Prof Khurshid Iqbal Andrabi held an interactive session with students, who included class representatives and scholars from various departments and faculties of KU.
During the interaction, organized by Department of Students Welfare (DSW) KU, Prof Andrabi shared his vision with the students and scholars for the overall betterment of the University.
Prof Andrabi said “It is disheartening to see the students and scholars making rounds of the various administrative sections each day to get their issues resolved including the small ones like getting their scholarship amount etc. The welfare of students should be our top most priority and we will soon evolve a mechanism where single widow clearance system would be put in place for such matters so that the precious time of students and scholars is not wasted.”
On the occasion the students demanded that there should be more scholarships and fellowships and more efforts should be made for ensuring better placements/campus recruitment drives including frequent industrial and corporate tours and internships.
The students requested the VC to ensure timely declaration of results and made an appeal for increasing the University transport facility on various routes for the students especially for the female students of the varsity.
Referring to the September 2014 floods, few students and scholars said that they have lost the books which they had got from Allama Iqbal Library and their departmental libraries and expressed their inability to return the same.
They also raised the issue that post –flood, the families of some of the students who are enrolled in various department in payment seat quota are not in a position to pay their entire fees and sought some flexibility in the mode of payment in terms of easy installments.
On the occasion the Vice Chancellor distributed merit-cum-means scholarship cheques worth Rs 31,000.
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