The district government has provided buildings to all the 73 schools in the rural areas, District Nazim Mian Naeem Javaid told newsmen here on Tuesday. He said there was no government school without its own building in any part of the district, adding the government was committed to education reform in the district, where 17 schools would be set up in the district by the end of the year. The cost of setting up a high school was Rs 4.5 million and a higher secondary school Rs 8 million, he added.
Naeem said 235 schools have been upgraded, while extra classrooms, furniture, and other missing facilities were provided to 600 schools during the last fiscal year, adding the construction of two hostels in the Government Post-graduate College for Women and Allama Iqbal Women College was under way at a cost of Rs 40 million, while two new blocks have been constructed in Hajipura Girls College and Post-graduate College for Women, Daska, at a cost of Rs 33 million.
The Nazim said a special grant of Rs 20 million has been allocated for the construction of classrooms in the recently upgraded Islamia Degree College for boys, Sambrial.
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