SIALKOT, Jan 12: Political, social and educational circles have expressed concern over an inordinate delay in the construction of Government Girls Degree College in Chawinda the building of which has been lying incomplete for the last four years.

Local notables, including Nadeem Azar Bajwa, Master Muhammad Ilyas and Muhammad Muneer, told reporters here on Monday that the provincial government had approved the project about four years back, but the college building could not be completed for some unknown reasons.

They said hundreds of girl students of dozens of surrounding villages had to go to Sialkot, Pasrur and Gujranwala to get higher education.

The Sialkot-based officials of the education department claimed that the matter was related to the provincial government.

Political and social circles have urged the chief minister and Gujranwala Divisional Commissioner Khalid Masud Chaudhry to look into the matter in the larger interest of girl students.

ILLEGAL PARKING LOTS: At least 25 illegal parking stands are forcibly collecting parking fee in different localities of Sialkot.

These parking lots are being run by contractors with the connivance of officials of the tehsil municipal administration in Allama Iqbal Chowk, Lehai Bazaar, Tehsil Bazaar, Sardar Begum Hospital Chowk, Shaheedan Chowk, Paris Road, Jail Road, Raja Road, Pasrur Road, Pul Aik, Rangpura Chowk, Abbott Road, Mujahid Road, Sethi Plaza, Khadim Ali Road and Kotli Behram.

Tehsil Municipal Officer Mir Muhammad Akmal said the TMA would soon launch a drive to remove parking stands established illegally by contractors.