PESHAWAR, Feb 16: The people of Batkhela in Malakand will get two degree colleges for boys and girls till July this year for which paper work has been completed and site selected.

This was disclosed by the District Nazim Malakand, Engineer Mohammad Hamayun Khan, while presiding over a meeting at Batkhela on Friday. Officials of the education department both schools and colleges attended the meeting.

The District Nazim said it was the long-standing demand of the people of Batkhela and till July this year, God willing, the problem would be solved. It was his desire to see Malakand a prosperous and well developed zone of the province, he added.

He said that furniture worth Rs150 million would be provided to all middle and high schools by the end of the current financial year.

It was also decided at the meeting that the existing higher secondary school Batkhela would be converted into a degree college for boys while the girls high school would be used for degree college for girls.

The district Nazim along with the education officials visited both the sites and selected the same for establishment of the colleges concerned. By setting up of these colleges the academic problems of the people of Batkhela would be solved to a great extent.