KATHMANDU, JUNE 9

Tribhuvan University, the oldest and biggest university in the country, has been padlocked for months on various pretexts, leading to chaos in the university and hampering of academic activities.

Fear looms large over the anarchy at the university as stakeholders remain apathetic to the TU's sorry state of affairs.

The university management and officials have been heavily criticised for paying poor attention to unlocking the padlock at TU.

The issue of padlock at TU was also raised in today's Parliament meeting with urgency by the MPs.

The MPs have asked whether the university is a knowledge sharing institution or a stage for protests.

Taking part in the deliberation in the Appropriation Bill 2022, lawmakers Rajendra Gautam and Yogesh Bhattarai asked, 'When are we getting rid of the culture of padlocking the university?'

Bhattarai also asked the government for an appropriate remedy to the culture of padlocking that has been spreading in the universities.

A version of this article appears in the print on June 10, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.