SWABI, April 17: Provincial Education Minister Maulana Fazal Ali inaugurated on Monday projects worth Rs47.987 million in his native town Zarobi and pledged to get more projects approve for the town in a few months.

Secretary Higher Education Sahibzada Muhammad Khalid, director colleges Muhammad Amin, director schools Fazal Manan, additional education secretary Shamas Khan, EDO literacy Khan Sher Khan and government officials attended the inauguration ceremonies.

The Zarobi-Kalabat road has been built at a cost Rs25.4 million and the Zarobi-Topi road at a cost of Rs3.67 million.

Load on transformers beyond their capacity and resultant low voltage have been a persistent problem for the people of the area, especially in summer. To cope with the problem, new transformers have been installed at a cost Rs2.2million.

New rooms have been constructed in the Government Girls Primary School in Zarobi at a cost of Rs1.429million to resolve the issued overcrowding in the school.

A building for a degree college has been constructed at a cost of Rs5.07 million and that of a government high school at a cost of Rs10.218 million.

The minister, while talking to the people, alleged that the federal government wanted to change the curriculum at the behest of the US but the NWFP government would never allow inclusion of anti-Islam material in the curriculum.

He said that changing curriculum was the job of provinces and changes might be proposed in the curriculum only by experts of the federating units in accordance with people’s belief and aspiration.

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