Where to apply the 'Applied Chemisrty' ? ?

By Syeda Nadia Zareef.

A beautiful, well designed, and well decorated house with a beautiful garden and swimming pool outside attracts everyone but this structure cannot be called as complete until it has all necessary rooms and places with proper and well planned construction.

But Karachi University has many such departments which are very well designed and looks beautiful from outside but when you step in, you find major flaws in their construction. Same is the case of the new building of 'APPLIED CHEMISTRY' which is well constructed and looks nice as compared to its old building but unlike its old building it has no proper practical labs.

Meaning of Applied Chemistry in dictionaries: 'The applications of the theories and principles of chemistry to practical purposes'

But unfortunately the department of applied chemistry in UoK has no  proper places where the applications of the theories can be put to practical purposes !!

Yes it sounds really surprising that the Department has no proper labs.There are very few Chemical Labs in the department.Beside this other important labs of Workshop, Heat and Mass Transfer and Unit Operation are conducted in the old building which is miles away from the new one.

Every day students have to rush towards the old building in  hot sunny weather for their labs not to mention that the old building seems like a horrifying castle that we usually see in horror movies.

The doors of the department produce suspicious and horrible sounds.It has no proper electricity system neither the labs are provided with proper apparatus.

Its not at all a new issue in UoK,every year the authorities assured students of the betterment and progress but no such step has ever been taken that proves that they actually want betterment in anything at the Campus.

And as these days our University is already suffering from lack of funds so there is no hope for the students and they have to carry on with these problems.

This is only one example but there are several other examples regarding the lack of perfection in the construction of buildings.

We all know that there are no satisfactory outcomes of the appeals of students but we still have hopes for good days and betterment in the entire system.