KARACHI, May 9: The Government Girls Primary and Secondary School Anjuman Islamia Liaquatabad will be reconstructed at a cost of Rs44.3 million in three years, said the Sindh Minister for Planning and Development, Shoaib Ahmed Bukhari, on Tuesday.

Presiding over a meeting at his office, he said that presently the school had 27 rooms and its condition was shabby. He said some 1,200 children were enrolled in the school.

After reconstruction, the school would have 41 classrooms, four laboratories, a library and an administration block. The total covered area of the project would be 44,392 sq-ft.—PPI

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