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SAHIWAL, Oct 17: The district government has allocated 554 kanals land adjacent to the Government College here for the setting up of a university. This was stated by district nazim Rai Hasan Nawaz at an iftar here on Tuesday.
He said the project would be completed at a cost of Rs450 million in three years. Bahauddin Zakariya University campus would continue to work till the completion of the university, he added.
He said an agriculture college would also be set up for which the district government has provided 360 kanals. The Punjab chief minister has approved a college for women on Farid Town Road, he continued.
The district government would construct a multi-storey building to accommodate all the government offices at one place, he stated.
The nazim said Rs80 million were being provided to 89 union councils of the district for the construction and renovation of sewerage system.
He said the chief minister has increased development grant of the district from Rs120 million to Rs220 million.
Mr Nawaz said the chief minister has approved the establishment of a police range at Sahiwal.
FRAUD CASE: The Anti-Corruption Establishment registered a case against a police inspector and a lawyer for providing bogus education certificates to the candidates seeking appointment as teachers.
The gang, headed by Inspector Zulfiqar Chaudhry and Advocate Qudratullah Tariq of Pakpattan, provided fake certificates of CSE, SES, SEV to nine people who were appointed in 2003-04 as teachers. They have been identified as Shabbir, Husain, Zulfiqar, Nawaz, Rehan, Ghulam Abbas, Iqbal Sajid, Irshad Ahmad, Saghir Ahmad and Ali Shah.
It is learnt that Rs1.6 million has been paid to the nine teachers as salaries by the education department.
At present, Inspector Zulfiqar is posted at Lahore.
ROBBED: The passengers of a wagon were robbed by the bandits traveling as passengers on Monday night.
Police said 10 members of a family were returning to Chak 45/5-L after attending the funeral of a relative.
The bandits collected jewellery and other valuables worth Rs65,000 from them at gunpoint and escaped.
