RAWALPINDI, Nov 8: The federal government will provide facilities lacked by women colleges of the city in collaboration with donor agencies.

This was stated by adviser to prime minister on social welfare and women development Nilofar Bakhtiar while presiding over a meeting of the principals of women colleges here on Saturday at the District Nazim Secretariat. She asked the principals to submit their proposals in this regard to the Ministry of Women Development.

Speaking on the occasion, District Nazim Raja Tariq Kiani requested the federal government to provide a major grant for the construction of auditoriums, science laboratories, additional classrooms and hostels and provision of water supply to women colleges and transport facilities.

He said the district government had solved most of the other minor problems with its own resources. He cited the example of provision of funds for setting up libraries in the newly set up women colleges.

Mr Kiani recalled most of the developments in the district’s education sector during his two years in office.