Last week I managed to take out time from my hectic schedule to visit Kashmir University. Ever since I left University I hardly get time to revisit my favourite place on earth –the University campus. Last Saturday proved to be a dream come true. I got time to stroll on the lush green campus with plenty of chinar trees dotting it. Life on campus reminded me of my University days. It made me to think about the people whom I liked and yearned to talk but never succeeded.

Usually time passes, never comes again but memories remain there to be remembered again and again. I heard that student union has come up in University and that it works for the welfare of students. During our time there was a complete ban on the formation of any such union.

In the absence of any collective body of students, authorities were always exploiting the students. The worst part of this was that the police on the campus were always resorting to highhandedness. Students were often intercepted, questioned inside the administrative block and inside the lawns. Their entry inside some buildings was restricted until 2 pm.

Sometimes if they would defy the unnecessary restrictions, they had to face the wrath of police officials. Students like me were kept lingering for a small official requisite inside administrative block. At times either concerned clerks had left their counters or were in no mood of doing the work post lunch time.  

Such restrictions are still in force on the campus.

Two weeks before two students were beaten up by the guards and left critically injured for entering the administrative block to submit their examination forms.

Imposing restrictions on students and lending free hand to clerical staff and policemen is detrimental to the academic excellence.

Mr Vice Chancellor such happenings are the creations of your predecessors, here is a chance for you to set the right trend.