MULTAN, Nov 14: Three new girls colleges will start functioning in the city next month, says Multan Director Colleges Tariq Maqbool.

Talking to newsmen on Friday, he said the Punjab education secretary had issued letters to the departments concerned for the issuance of NoCs for the operation of the colleges.

He said that the girls colleges would function in the Civil Defence building, Chowk Shaheedaan, hostel of Government Alamdar Hussain Gilani College for Boys and Government Elementary Teachers Training College at Chungi No 6.

The staff would be recruited on an ad hoc basis who would beregularised later.

To a question on the women university project, he said that land had been transferred to the Higher Education Commission (HEC).

He said work on the project would begin after the Women University Act was passed by the National Assembly.—APP