Meeting held to review security at Sindh University

A meeting of security-related staff was held under the chair of Sindh University Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr. Muhammad Siddique Kalhoro, in which issues pertaining to the security of the varsity were discussed.

It was decided to further improve the security system before re-opening of the University of Sindh Jamshoro.

The vice-chancellor on the occasion directed the security guards to behave gently toward teachers, officers and students in order to leave the best impression on them. The meeting was attended by Registrar Dr. Ghulam Mohammad Bhutto, Additional Registrar & Director of Campus Security Abdul Majeed Panhoor, Director Students Affairs Dr. Muhammad Younis Leghari and security officer Kashif Ali Narejo and all
guards.

The security staff has been asked to further ameliorate the security of the institution and perform duties with all-out responsibility. One of the objectives of the meeting was the vice-chancellor’s direct interaction with the lower staff/security guards to enquire about their immediate problems and make them feel ownership of the institution as well as improve the security of the university.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Kalhoro said that security guards were working in an important higher education institution like the University of Sindh so they could give the benefit of education to their children because the admission quota was reserved for their children in the varsity.

He said that lower staff should not compromise on children’s education. “If any employee’s child is educated, his next generation will be affluent,” he said.

He said asking for promotion was not wrong, but the main thing was that the security guards should perform their duties with sincerity and spend all their energy on the education of their children.

The vice-chancellor further said that many scholarships were being offered by the University of Sindh, from which the children of lower staff could also benefit. He said that the security guards also had the facility of enjoying leave, but for it, they should fill the required proforma before going on it so that the alternatives could be deployed in their place.

Hanif Samoon is a senior journalist based at Thar/Badin and contributes reports from different districts of Sindh to Minute Mirror. He has won a number of awards, including the Agahi Award twice for his stories on health and child rights. He tweets @HanifSamoon1 and can be reached through email at [email protected]