GUJRAT: The provincial government has been asked to allocate funds for the reconstruction of 27 buildings of schools declared dangerous across the district.

An official of the district government said the district education department had recently conducted a survey of dangerous buildings of public sector educational institutions, especially schools, on the direction of the provincial government.

The survey declared 27 buildings highly dangerous while some of the school structures were found partially damaged that would be repaired with available funds of the district government.

He said the buildings declared most dangerous would no longer be used after the summer vacation and would be demolished.

He said a list had already been sent to provincial authorities while the district buildings department had been asked to prepare the cost estimate of the reconstruction of these dangerous structures.

Sources said the provincial government had decided to reconstruct the dangerous buildings on a priority basis across the province besides stopping the establishment of new schools for the time being as most of the education department’s uplift funds would be spent on the reconstruction and upkeep of existing buildings of schools.

KIDNEY CENTRE: PML-Q’s Punjab information secretary Mian Imran Masood has called for naming the planned kidney centre in Gujrat after Begum Mehmooda Aziz who had donated two-kanal land in the downtown.

In a statement issued here on Wednesday, Mr Masood said Begum Aziz was a known philanthropist of Gujrat who actually donated the precious piece of land to the Red Crescent Society a few years back where a household training school for women was earlier being run successfully.

Published in Dawn, July 23rd, 2015

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