LAHORE, July 29: The City District Government officials will try to convince parents of 100 students to get their children admitted to the O-level class being launched at the Government Islamia High School, Bhati Gate.

The students topped a list of 500 that was prepared after giving tests to 2,800 students studying in six schools in the vicinity of the Government Islamia High School. Teachers selected for imparting instruction to the O-level classes have been transferred to the school and are being trained in cooperation with the British Council and the University of Cambridge.

The decision to approach the parents of top 100 students for admission to O-level classes was taken at a meeting here on Tuesday with District Nazim Mian Amer Mahmood in the chair. The arrangements for making the school a premier institution were discussed at the meeting.

The district Nazim was informed that 36 classrooms, three laboratories and staffrooms in the school building had been renovated at a cost of Rs1.8 million. Encroachment on school land had also been removed.

It was decided that Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervez Elahi should be approached for inauguration and philanthropists requested to patronize the school.