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SWABI, Aug 2: The NWFP education minister has ordered an increase of 50 seats in the Kernal Sher Girls Degree College to accommodate more students of the district, sources said here on Wednesday.
A delegation of parents and people of the district had called on the minister on Tuesday and apprised him of the shortage of seats in the college and the difficulty being faced by girls to get admission.
The sources claimed that the minister had ordered the increase of 50 seats in the college to provide education facility to the people of the district.
They said that the education minister also announced five additional teaching staff vacancies and 300 chairs for the college.
They said that the provincial education minister had assured the dele-
gation about the construction of a hostel in the Kernel Sher Girls Degree College in the next annual development programme.
ELECTRICITY OVERLOADING: More than 50 electricity transformers were either burnt or went out of order due to overloading in different areas of the district during the last eight days.
Sources in Peshawar Electric Supply Company here said on Wednesday they lacked a proper system to repair the transformers and restore electricity to the affected areas.
In some areas, people took to the streets, held demonstrations and blocked roads in protest against the power outages. They demanded immediate restoration of power supply.
The sources said the Peshawar Electric Supply Company staff had to take the faulty transformers to the Transformer Reclamation Workshop in Nowshera for repair, where damaged transformers from different parts of the province were repaired in turn.
