Progress schemes: 16 new degree colleges to be constructed in K-P

CM says priority should be given to gas-producing areas

PESHAWAR: The establishment of 16 new degree colleges in various districts at an estimated cost of Rs5 billion has been approved by Chief Minister Pervez Khattak.

This was mentioned in a handout issued on Friday. The CM has ordered officials to raise the standard of the district headquarters level public sector institutes and convert them into modern model colleges at a meeting at the CM’s Secretariat.

Khattak reviewed proposals for 19 colleges and while calling 16 of them feasible, directed authorities to initiate construction. They will be set up in Swat, Upper Dir, Lower Dir, Abbottabad, Peshawar, Chitral, Buner, Nowshera, DI Khan, Mardan, Lakki Marwat and Charsadda.

In another meeting, the CM spoke about development schemes in southern districts where gas is produced.

Khattak added priority should be given to the areas where gas is produced so long-standing demands of the population in such areas could be fulfilled.

“Sufficient funds received by the provincial government from gas royalty would be made available for these schemes.” He also directed the district administration of Kohat to form district-level committees comprising MPAs, the district nazim, deputy commissioner and representatives of Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited to identify schemes by mutual consultation.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 7^th, 2015.