KOHAT: The parents of girl students have demanded of the government to increase seats in the first year classes in Government Degree College for Women here so as to accommodate maximum number of girls who have recently passed their secondary school certificate examinations.

They said that their children got ‘A’ grade and first division in arts and science groups in SSC exams, but they had been denied admission in the city’s college due to unavailability of seats.

The parents said that they were not able to send their daughters to the KDA Girls Degree College because it was far away from the city centre and required costly transport facility.

They demanded of the government to immediately announce 100 additional seats in the first year class of arts faculty and 50 in the science faculty of the college, located in the city.

WATER SHORTAGE: The residents of Bangashabad locality here have been facing acute shortage of drinking due to faulty tube well.

Noor Mohammad, an elder of the area, told Dawn on Sunday that the tube well of the area developed some fault a week ago, but the tehsil municipal administration, which had been charging water tax regularly, was not paying attention to the residents’ requests to repair it. There is acute shortage of water for drinking and washing clothes.

He said that the TMA had given contract of installation and repair of the tube well to a man from Peshawar who did not come to Kohat for months. He demanded that the contract should be given to a local contractor so that he could repair the tube well within 24 hours under an agreement. The residents also demanded replacement of the old pipelines.

Published in Dawn, August 25th, 2014