KARACHI: Provincial Minister of Sindh for Local Government, Public Health Engineering and Rural Development and Katchi Abadies Saeed Ghani said that Sindh Madressatul Islam University has set a good tradition by forming students’ council and giving a right to vote to its students to elect thirty representatives of the council. He suggested that other universities of the country should also follow this tradition.
He said this after administering oath to the thirty elected office bearers of student’s council of SMIU at the inner courtyard of the varsity’s Main Building. The Student’s Council is further divided into six societies as arts society, community service society, debating society, literary society, science society and sports society with each having its own sovereign structure.
Ghani said that it is good to see that SMIU encourages its students to have political understanding along with quality education. He said every university and college should have a student union however, since such unions were also misused in the past, there was a difference of opinion within the society over its complete revival. He said when everyone in the country was eligible to cast a vote then why such a right was not given to students in educational institutions; as students were the ones who had to run the country in future.
He further said things would get better in future if students were encouraged to take active part in politics. He asked the faculty to encourage students to take understand the politics and democratic values as the country needs good leadership. He said things would improve when everyone in the country got understood politics and felt the real power of the vote.
He congratulated the elected members of the Students’ Council of SMIU and hoped that all the elected representatives will upheld the democratic values along with acquiring quality education, which would help them serving the country in a better way in future.
Sindh Madressatul Islam University’s Vice Chancellor Dr Muhammad Ali Shaikh, felicitated the members of the elected Students’ Council and said the SMIU was the first and only among the public sector universities in the country, which had given the right to its students to elect their own representatives on the council.
He said the SMIU offered the students’ council as an alternative to student unions and the students were empowered to elect 30 members on the students’ council in pure democratic order. Shaikh said Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had founded Pakistan through vote and on the basis of the decision taken by the elected representatives of people. A large number of students, faculty and representatives from various walks of life attended the oath taking ceremony.