MANSEHRA: District development advisory committee chairman MPA Zareen Gul said on Friday that the government should provide equal educational opportunities to boys and girls in Torghar if it wanted real development of the backward district.

“Development of Torghar district lies in providing equal opportunities of education to the boys and girls and I am pleased to inaugurate new classes in this higher secondary school, which has been elevated from a middle school,” Mr Gul said while speaking at the opening ceremony of new classes.

Earlier in the day the MPA inaugurated Mersgae road. “I think development and education together can bring a real change in the lives of people,” he said. He said that a high school for boys was also being constructed with an estimated cost of Rs160 million in Chandu Mera Medakhail. He said that work on small hydropower project would be started in the district, which would bring prosperity to the area.

“The survey of 20 MW Barundo Khawar hydropower project has been completed and once the project is completed it will bring a positive change in the lives of people of the district,” he said.

Mr Gul said that a small hydropower project would be completed with a cost of Rs5 billion and the district would also get the royalty which would be spent on the welfare local people. He said that MNA Mohammad Safdar had also been taking interest in development of roads so as to promote tourism in Torghar.

The MPA said that funds for construction of Charkalam-Muchasar road had also been approved. He advised people to send their children to schools so that they could become part of the development process.

Torghar was given the status of a settled district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa through a presidential order in 2012.— Correspondent

Published in Dawn, August 15th, 2015

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