HYDERABAD, June 17: A scheme has been submitted to the government for setting up a cadet college in New Saeedabad to provide quality education to rural youth, said Sindh Minister for Inter-provincial Coordination, Makhdoom Jamiluzzaman.

Speaking at a ceremony of renaming Saeedabad Chowk as Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Chowk on Tuesday, he said the progress of a society depends on the development and promotion of education adding because of which a network of educational institutions was being laid throughout Sindh and schools being establishment in the neglected areas of Saeedabad of Matiari district.

He said it was important that towns like Saeedabad and Hala should be paid more attention as they were being neglected. Makhdoom Jamiluzzaman said the Sindh Chief Minister will be requested to provide special development funds for Matiari district.

This was peoples’ government which entered the corridors of power through votes and with an agenda to serve masses, he said.

He said Saeedabad main road and link road will be converted into double carriage roads and appealed to the people to remove encroachments. He advised the people not to visit him in Karachi as he would make sure their problems were resolved at their doorsteps.

He directed the district administration to retrieve the plot of a non-Muslim from the possession of a land grabber. A large number of people attended the ceremony.

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