NCA Lahore closed for a week, students asked to immediately vacate hostels

LAHORE: The National College of Arts in Lahore on Friday announced a week's holiday, after which the hostel administration ordered students to immediately vacate their dormitories.

The NCA administration ordered students to vacate three hostels; two for boys and a girls' dormitory.

With this, around 300 students, male and female, have been stranded due to administration negligence. All of these students come from distant cities and areas in the province, while some hail from outside Punjab.

Geo News has learnt that police had given a notice to hostel administration a week ago. They said that they had repeatedly asked the administration to improve security, before finally getting the hostels vacated tonight upon non-compliance of orders by admin staff.

Reached for comment, hostel administration declined the request.

Police said the hostels will not be reopened until adequate security arrangements are made.

The situation also perplexed the parents of the students, who questioned where would their children go at this hour of night.

The students, outside the hostels, were found calling their relatives and friends in Lahore in search of a temporary place to stay at.

No institute asked to get hostels vacated: DIG

On the other hand, DIG Operations Lahore Haider Ashraf denied that the police asked NCA administration to get the hostels vacated.

"We have not asked administration of any educational institution to get its hostels vacated," Ashraf said, adding that police were providing foolproof security to all institutes.