KOHAT, May 13: NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah while expressing concern over the delay in the allotment of a building for virtual university has asked the district Nazim to make arrangements for the same immediately.

Speaking at a meeting at the residence of the Awami National Party MPA, Syed Qalb-i-Hasan, in Ustarzai town on Monday, the governor said that he had sanctioned a virtual university for Kohat last year, but the district Nazim had failed to arrange a building for it due to unknown reasons.

He said that he had selected the abandoned building of women elementary college for the university, but he had learnt that the Nazim had allotted it for a middle school.

He called upon the local business community to invest in the industrial sector and also bring foreign investment to create jobs for the educated youth. He said that the human resource sector, particularly the IT, had improved a lot and now it was the responsibility of the industrialists to provide jobs to the professional and talented youth.

The governor said environment for investment was good in the province and people could bring foreign investment in mineral, hydel, spinning and other profitable sectors.

To a demand made by Mr Hasan, the governor said the government was trying to make modern health facilities available to the people at the tehsil level and downwards therefore there was no need at the moment to further upgrade the KDA hospital.

He said the health facilities like CT scan would be expanded to the villages gradually to rid the people from travelling hundreds of miles. This, he said, would also decrease burden on the hospitals located in capital of districts and the province.

He said he would discuss upgradation of schools in Ustarzai with the secretary and then decide what could be done. He stressed the need for education especially of girls and termed it a solution of social, political and economic problems faced by the nation.