KOHAT: The newly constructed Gumbat intermediate college is without water supply causing problems to the teachers and students.

Sources said the college was to be completed in 2013 with a cost of Rs140 million but on the demand of the contractor its completion date was extended to 2014, but even then proper facilities are not provided to it.

The education department had asked the staff and the students to shift to the new building from a rented house in October 2014 despite the fact that it had no electricity and water supply. The electricity was provided to the college on Oct 2 for which the concerned department had deposited Rs1.7 million in 2013.

The sources said that the college had got no funds of its own for meeting daily expenses and after the Peshawar army school incident it had to borrow Rs0.8 million for making security arrangements. They said though the public health engineering department was laying a two kilometers long pipeline from a tube-well up to the college, a pumping machine was yet to be installed at the tube-well.

WATER SHORTAGE: The residents of Lachi tehsil have appealed to the government to replace the narrow diameter pipeline of the local water supply scheme.

They said they had been demanding replacement of the pipes for several years but the tehsil municipal administration didn’t pay heed to their demand.

The scheme had been sanctioned during the last ANP government.

Similarly, the tehsil headquarters hospital lacks modern facilities and the machinery brought for it is rusting in the warehouse.

An elder lamented that the past governments made false promises of developing the area.

He criticised the PTI government for doing nothing for the tehsil although the MPA elected from the constituency was the provincial law minister.

Sources said the Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP) worked in the area in real sense. They said induction of blue eyed people of the MPAs in the tehsil municipal committee had adversely affected its performance.

Published in Dawn, October 26th, 2015

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