Harassment on campus: Private institute turns out to be a nightmare for female students and employees

LAHORE- Sexual Harassment is taking place against female students and employees of a renowned private educational network, at the hands of professors and administrative crew, learnt Daily Pakistan Global.

A victim of such incident approached the outlet and shared the traumatic incident she faced when she applied for a position at the private institute centred in Lahore.

According to her, after she applied for the job, she has had four interviews and was promised a healthy salary. However, soon these promises of a career turned into harassment after the interviewer started demanding to "meet alone".



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The victim also alleged that the private educational network wasn't following the laws of the minimum wage, thus giving its employees pay as low as ten thousand instead of a standard minimum wage i.e. sixteen thousand. She also accused the administration of not providing the employees with appointment letter, despite the fact that some of them are working for more than five years. This absence of appointment letter allows the organization to fire any employee without any prior notice.

The problem isn't confined to the administrative flaws and harassment of female employees, but students are also subjected to indecent and immoral approaches by teachers and administrative figures. Many students admitted having been approached by an authority figure and asked to indulge in indecent and immoral activities.

Elder sister of one such student shared screenshots of discussion taking place between the affected student and an English language teacher at the said institute. In the screenshots, the student and teacher seem to indulge in a salacious conversation.

Another student shared screenshots of a teacher, part of the administration, harassing her on Facebook













We asked students if they ever have filed a complaint against the lewd behavior of teachers. While some of them responded that they have filed complaints against their harassers with the authorities however no action was taken against them. Others suggested they were afraid to talk about it.

Upon inquiring, administration of the said college said that they had no knowledge of any such incident taking place and complaint cell of the Head office wasn't available to make any comments.

The education system in question is one of the biggest education systems in Lahore, with branches of its college and academy campuses all over in the Punjab province.

The teacher has since posted his clarification over the matter.

Update: The teacher is not a part of the said institute any longer.