The principal of Khairpur College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology (KCAET), Dr. Mohammad Ibrahim Keerio, has distributed laptops among the students in a ceremony held at the college on Thursday. The laptops were distributed under the Prime Minister’s Laptop Scheme (Phase-IV). Addressing the ceremony, the principal said that the government is providing modern educational facilities to the university students. He said that the KCAET has established a modern computer lab and provided laptops to the students so that they could use modern technology to get advanced knowledge and innovative ideas from it. He emphasized upon the students that they should focus on modern information technology (IT) facilities to get quality education. He said that we are living in the IT revolution era and without having the knowledge of IT, we could not achieve our modern educational goals. Today’s students are luckiest that they have all the modern facilities of knowledge in the KCAET, he added. The principal advised students that they should get benefit from the IT to get modern agriculture knowledge. He said that as compared to past, our education standards have improved. He added that the KCAET has already installed a Reserve Osmosis (RO) water filtration plant in the college to provide clean drinking water to the students. He said that it is the responsibility of the students that, after getting all the modern facilities, they should focus on their education. He further said that the students are an asset for the nation and the motto of KCAET is to produce quality students from the institution who can bring change in the society. Computer literacy is essential in today’s modern IT revolution era and it has brought revolution in all the major fields of science including the agriculture sector, he concluded. SALU denies allegations levelled by teachers The spokesperson of Shah Abdul Latif University (SALU) Khairpur, Ibrahim Khokhar, has refuted the allegations of the protesting teachers published in various newspapers and termed the allegations as blackmailing tactics on Thursday. In his statement, he made it clear that the university is undergoing serious financial crisis and the administration is in contact with the Government of Sindh and Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan to resolve the issue. However, he continued, the protesting teachers have their own axe to grind and they are exploiting the situation for personal benefits and illegal promotions. This small group is bent upon maligning the reputation of the university and in this hour of crises, their demand for leave encashment is nothing but a pressurizing tactic to achieve vested interests, he said. The spokesperson further claimed that the university is functioning properly despite the financial crisis under the leadership of the Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Parveen Shah and she is committed to resolving all the fair demands of the teachers as soon as the financial issues get resolved by the government. Published in Daily Times, September 14th 2018.