HYDERABAD, Jan 3: The Students' Action Committee of the Quaid-i-Awam University of Engineering, Science and Technology, Nawabshah, has demanded removal of the university vice-chancellor.

Speaking at a news conference at the press club here on Monday, committee leaders Ali Gohar Chachar, Lala Riaz Pathan, Farhan Domki, Tariq Ali and Samiullah Brohi said the university administration had completed one term in nine weeks, instead of 22 weeks, terming it an educational fraud.

They regretted that the university had rusticated nine protesting students. They alleged that the vice-chancellor had sent a massage to the rusticated students that they could only be taken back if they denounced the 'remove vice-chancellor movement'.

They said the Nawabshah Engineering College had been upgraded to the university level in 1996 but it had not started post-graduate classes. The students said their university was lagging behind the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology by one academic year.

They said the university received research grant from the Higher Education Commission but it did not use the amount and deposited it in bank to earn profit.

They observed that the object of introducing the self-finance scheme was to award scholarships to teachers for higher studies but no fund was being spent on faculty development. They also accused the vice-chancellor of malpractice.

PLEA: The Elementary College Teachers Association Hyderabad unit have demanded removal of the in-charge principal of the college, Inayat Shaikh, and appoint some senior teacher in his place.

In a joint statement issued here on Monday, it said the new in-charge principal was even junior to eight assistant professors of the college and one associate professor.