GUJRAT: The building of old people’s home has been converted into a slow learners’ school after renovation and provision of basic facilities with the Rs10m donation by a local philanthropist and his family.

Gujranwala Commissioner Shumail Ahmed Khwaja inaugurated the school on Friday. Ashraf Rehania and his family had funded the project.

Addressing the function, the commissioner pledged to upgrade the school from primary to the middle level besides providing the transport facility to it.

The then Gujrat nazim Chaudhry Shafaat Husain had got constructed the building initially for establishment of an old people’s home in 2009, however, the incumbent Gujrat district government had got the building completed with the funds provided by the local philanthropists and turned it into the slow learners’ school which was previously being run in a rented building on the Bhimbher Road.

DCO Liaqat Chatha also spoke.

DPO Rai Ijaz Ahmed, PML-N lawmakers Imran Zafar, Shabeer Kotla and others were present. Meanwhile, the commissioner inaugurated the tree plantation drive by planting a sapling in front of the Gujrat district government complex.

As many as 132,000 trees will be planted in the district during the plantation drive till the end of April.

Published in Dawn March 14th , 2015

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