PESHAWAR, July 14: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani on Wednesday approved in principle the establishment of a quality educational institution in Charsadda under the aegis of the Board of Trustees, Islamia College, Peshawar.

He gave the approval during a meeting at the CM secretariat. The chief minister constituted a high-level committee headed by Education Minister Maulana Fazle Ali Haqqani to work out modalities for the proposed institution.

The committee would also discuss handing over a plot of land, or part of it, measuring about 450 kanal, which the provincial government had acquired for the establishment of such an institution in 1989 but which remains unutilized.

Addressing the meeting, the chief minister said that his government wanted to provide quality education to the people of rural areas so that people could fully and easily avail of this facility and the rush of people towards cities could be checked.

He said that though the government had been constructing schools and colleges in every area of the province, it was also necessary to have centres of quality education in every district.

Officials told the meeting that a piece of land had been acquired in 1989 but had not been utilized so far. The education minister said that his department was ready to hand over the land to the BOT but with the condition that it will only be utilized for education purposes, and that its ownership will stay with the provincial government, and that the BOT would foot the bill of construction and of running the institution. Mohammad Arshad Khan, MPA, also spoke. -PPI