The hostel management of Liaquat University of Medical and Health Science (LUMHS) has allegedly converted the university student hostels into private lodges to make money from outsiders.
The sources in the LUMHS said that the sitting provost with the help of clerks has illegally rented hostels' rooms to outsiders particularly students from University of Sindh and Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (MUET).
It is said that the clerks strike deals with outsiders, who pay Rs 1000 extra per month besides monthly fee of the room and no room maintenance is catered to them.
In this way, thousands of rupees are earned by the provost and all maintenance budgets of boys' hostels are easily embezzled.
A senior student of the final year on the condition of anonymity said that when the present provost took a charge, the hostels have turned into the den of outsiders where theft incidents have become a routine.
"Mobile phone sets of many students and precious daily use items have been stolen from their rooms," he said.
Not single rupee has been spent on account of maintenance by the present management, he alleged, adding "We have to purchase tube lights, door or window nets and even we have to install electric wires by ourselves. The prevailing situation has discouraged the medical students to live in hostels and they prefer the rented houses, despite of being more expensive as compared to hostels."
He maintained that such incidents never occurred during the tenure of the former provost.
The sitting provost, who was appointed on political basis, is bent upon minting money and not serving the students.
The sources claimed that more than around 40 rooms of each hostel were allotted to ghost medical students.
There are four boys' hotels, Al-Razi, Seena, Tibree and Al-beruni and each hostel has 147 rooms.
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