PESHAWAR, Nov 15: NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has said that the Malakand university would usher in an educational revolution in the entire Malakand belt which would enable the students of Malakand, Dir, Swat, Chitral, Buner and Kohistan to get higher education in their own area.

He was speaking at the inauguration ceremony of Malakand university at Chakdara during his visit to Malakand on Thursday.

The governor said that the present government had decentralized the educational facility and spread it to every nook and corner of the province so that the backward areas should also have educational facilities for their people.

He said that in the past, educational facilities were concentrated in Peshawar alone but the present government had expanded them in order to bring about an educational revolution in the province.

He said in order to realise that aim universities had been established in various parts of the province. “Today I inaugurated the Malakand university, yesterday I was in Hazara for the Hazara University and before that I visited Dera Ismail Khan University,” the governor said.

On this occasion, the governor announced a grant of one million rupees for provision of equipment for the lab of the university.

Earlier, he visited various sections of the university, including Administrative Block and hostels for male, female and professors.

He termed the site suitable for the university, as most of the accommodation was already available and directed the administration to provide all facilities to the hostels.

The university has been established in the building of defunct Dir Forest Complex.

The university would offer MA and MSc education in seven subjects. In all, 200 students — both male and female — have got admissions to the university. The university would start classes from December 1.