PESHAWAR, Feb 27: The Cadet College Kohatian Association has expressed concern over the stoppage of Grant-in-Aid by the government to Cadet College Kohat, and has asked the government to continue aid to the college, so that students from the lower income group could also study at prestigious institution.

Addressing a news conference at the Peshawar Press Club here on Thursday, president of the Old Students of the Cadet College, Kohat Association, Iqbal Younis, said that the NWFP government provided 54 per cent as Grant-in-Aid since its establishment in 1965, whereas 46 per cent was being generated from its own resources.

Flanked by association’s members, Qaisar Tariq, Hamidullah Afridi and Syed Hakim Shah, Mr Younis said that the financial problems of the college had increased by the stoppage of Grant-in-Aid on July 1, 2001.

The college was established on the pattern of Pataro and Hasanabdal to provide state-of-the-art education to the people of backwards districts. The students pay nominal fee and brilliant students get monthly scholarships.

Some 30,000 students from the Cadet College, Kohat, have graduated so far. Since the stoppage of Grant-in-Aid of Rs10 million in July 2001, which was being provided by the government regularly, there had been an alarming increase in the fee structures.