Businessmen to fund 500 schools

Published March 29, 2003

FAISALABAD, March 28: Local traders and industrialists have pledged to support a plan to improve infrastructure in 500 schools of the district.

They made the announcement here on Friday at the local circuit house during their meeting with Governor Khalid Maqbool.

The governor asked the District Nazim, DCO and EDO (Education) to prepare in two weeks a list of schools which were in a miserable condition.

Among the traders and industrialists who met Maqbool were former privatization commission chief Altaf Saleem, MNA Mushtaq Cheema, Mian Lateef, Sahid Nazir, Khurram Iftikhar, Saleem Umar, Aasem Khursheed, Alhaj Nawaz Vohra, Haji Mohammed Saleem, Aftab Ahmad, Saleem Bhatt and Mirza Shaukat Beg.

CONVOCATION: The governor also addressed the 11th convocation of the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, at Iqbal Auditorium here on Friday.

He gave away medals to position-holders and distributed degrees among others. He also opened a nursery sanitation laboratory in the university and inspected different research farms.

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