SIALKOT, Nov 9: The district government has provided buildings to all the 73 schools in the rural areas. District Nazim Mian Naeem Javaid told newsmen here on Tuesday that there was no government school without its own building in any part of the district.

He said the government was committed to education reform in the district. Seventeen schools would be set up in the district by the end of the year. The cost of setting up a high school was Rs4.5 million and a higher secondary school Rs8 million, he added.

Mian Naeem said 235 schools have been upgraded, while extra classrooms, furniture and other missing facilities were provided to 600 schools during the last fiscal year.

He said the construction of two hostels in the Government Postgraduate College for Women and Allama Iqbal Women College was underway at a cost of Rs40 million while two new blocks have been constructed in Hajipura Girls College and Postgraduate College for Women, Daska, at a cost of Rs33 million.

He said a special grant of Rs20 million has been allocated for the construction of classrooms in the recently upgraded Islamia Degree College for Boys, Sambrial.