Five years past, capital yet to get a new library, NA told

A PC-1 for Faiz Ahmed Faiz library, in Sector F-10 has been submitted to the Planning Division for approval

ISLAMABAD: Parliamentary Secretary for National History and Literary Heritage Division Ghazala Saifi on Friday told the National Assembly that no new library had been set up in Islamabad during the last five years due to shortage of funds.

In a written reply to MNA Naureen Farooq Ibrahim, it was informed during the question hour that the Department of Libraries however had completed maintenance work of Sector G-7 and Sector G-11 community libraries and these were now fully functional.

A PC-1 for Faiz Ahmed Faiz library, in Sector F-10 had been submitted to the Planning Division for approval. In this regard, CDA had also been approached to establish new community libraries in other sectors of Islamabad. CDA had identified 12 locations and the matter was under process. Saifi said the government would work to make Islamabad a city of libraries, adding it was important to have libraries in schools.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 14^th, 2019.