KOHAT, Aug 11: NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has said that the Kohat industrial estate would soon get the supply of gas as a cheap source of energy to encourage local entrepreneurs.

He was talking to a delegation of Kohat Chamber of Commerce and Industry led by its president Manzoor Ahmed Paracha which called on him at the Circuit House on Tuesday. Responding to their demand for improvement in educational facilities, especially for girls, the governor assured that he would take up the matter with the quarters concerned to increase the number of seats in the existing colleges or establish a new girls college, KCCI president told Dawn on Wednesday.

Syed Qalb-i-Hassan, MPA, during his meeting with the governor proposed conversion of old commissioner house into a girls college. He also said that for girl students of far-flung areas the government should establish a new college in KDA township.

It may be recalled that the governor, who had converted the old commissioner house into a library, had now recently declared it Frontier House following complaints that the district government was using the building as a marriage hall to generate income.

On the proposal of changing the building into a girls college, he promised to direct the education ministry to accommodate the aspirations of people's representatives to the maximum extent.

Meanwhile, addressing the concluding ceremony of the 10th and 11th training courses for teachers belonging to the federally administered tribal areas at the Frontier Education Foundation here on Tuesday, the governor said that the government was paying special attention to achieve the aim of human resource development by equipping school staff with modern techniques. He awarded course completion certificates to the first-ever batch of 50 teachers on completion of training at the academy.