The Baloch Students Action Committee (BSAC) has accused the Makran Medical College administration in Turbat of intimidation and bias in viva examinations, and urged it to address the demands of students who have held a sit-in for six days.
In a statement, BSAC’s central spokesperson said the administration did not ensure that teachers held classes regularly, yet students were repeatedly failed in oral examinations. Failures in the viva component of supplementary exams also forced students to sit the annual examinations again, the spokesperson added.
The organisation said students had raised these concerns and protested previously, but no satisfactory solution had been found. It accused the administration of failing to take the issue seriously despite the consequences for students’ academic careers.
“As a responsible student organisation, we condemn policies that undermine education, including the mistreatment and intimidation of students and bias in examinations,” the spokesperson said.
BSAC said educational institutions across Balochistan had long faced similar problems and criticised practices it described as contrary to the interests of education.
“No business is run the way educational institutions in Balochistan are being run,” the spokesperson said, adding that institutions should help students pursue their studies and provide modern facilities rather than put their academic futures at risk.
The organisation called on the college administration to hear the protesting students’ demands and address them immediately, and urged educational institutions across Balochistan to take such concerns seriously so that students’ “academic careers and academic year are not put at risk”.