SM Law College deprives interior Sindh students of online education facility

SHIKARPUR:The law students belonging to Shikarpur and other districts of interior Sindh complained on Tuesday that they had got their admission in LLB five year degree program in 2017 in Sindh Muslim Law College Karachi and had yet passed the first year annual examination only while the annual examinations for the year 2018 and 2019 could still not be conducted in two years despite they had paid the examination fees for two years.

“This college is famous for a very rich academic history as Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and other prominent lawyers also got their law degrees from this college, but due to poor administration and mismanagement, this historical college is losing its reputation,” the students noted.

On the other hand, the students, including Ahsan Rasheed Jamro, Bilawal Mangi, Syed Muhsan Ali Shah, Ghulam Hyder Mugheri, Shoaib Arain, Asim Solangi, Najamuddin Mazari, Muhammad Sachal Shaikh, Usama Karim Junejo and others belonging to Shikarpur, Jacobabad and other districts have complained that about one thousand law students belonging to interior Sindh had been deprived of availing online teaching facilities at their homes while Karachi students were getting the same facility.

They said the online teaching facilities had been introduced by the college administration following the order of Sindh government during the lockdown imposed in the province against the coronavirus. Furthermore, all other law universities and colleges had also started their online classes for their students during these hard days of COVID-19 crisis, he said.

The affected law students demanded of the law college administration that the annual examinations for the last second and third years may be held without any delay as well as providing the teaching facilities at their homes through online system.

On the occasion, the appealed to the Federal and Provincial Education and Law Ministers to promote them from first year to the upcoming year as per new policy introduced by the government.