LAHORE, Sept 19: The City District Government has decided to establish the first girls intermediate college at Raiwind on the demand of the town population.

This was stated by District Nazim Mian Amer Mahmood on Thursday. He was talking to a delegation of the woman members of the Lahore District Council here.

The Nazim said that the CDG had started the proceedings for acquisition of 41 kanals for the proposed college.

He said that the CDG had imposed a ban on deploying girl students for sanitation duties and had decided to take stern action against the teachers found violating the instructions.

Special funds had also been provided for the construction of the boundary walls of girls schools in the district.

He said that the CDG had assigned top priority to education and had spent Rs82.1 million on 329 schemes of improvement and construction of buildings for schools and colleges in the district during the past one year.

Twelve high schools had been upgraded as model schools with improved science and computer laboratories.

He said that a sum of Rs13 million had been spent for the establishment of science and computer laboratories and library facilities in the high schools and colleges in the district during the past one year.

Another sum of Rs3.4 million was being spent for the construction of new classrooms and repair of tubewell and water supply system in the Islamia College, Cooper Road.

He said that 333 new schools and 15 colleges were proposed to be established in the provincial metropolis during the next five years under the master plan.

One third of the new educational institutions would be established in the public sector.