Bhara Kahu girls college gets principal

Islamabad

Things are fast moving towards the opening of the first government girls degree college in Bhara Kahu, the capital’s biggest rustic locality inhabited by around 0.3 million people.

The Islamabad Model College for Girls, Bhara Kahu, is likely to begin classes in August.

In the latest development, FG Margalla College for Women, F-7/4, associate professor Samina Ashraf has been made the college’s principal.

Next will be the appointment of teachers on ad hoc basis to the college, where currently some civil and electrical work is in progress.

An official in the know told ‘The News’ that teachers would be ‘borrowed’ from other educational institutions.

He said initially, the college would begin intermediate classes to be taken by teachers of other educational institutions, including Islamabad Model Postgraduate College for Girls F-7/2, Islamabad Model Postgraduate College for Girls F-7/4 and Islamabad Model Postgraduate College for Girls G-10/4.

The college’s establishment was the brainchild of the Prime Minister’s Secretariat, which directed the relevant authorities in June 2003 to materialise the idea.

There followed the development of the project’s PC-1, which was later approved by the Central Development Working Party in September 2004. However, the project stuck in a slow lane afterwards due to the red tape for allotment of land and thus, escalating its cost from Rs75 million to Rs250 million over the next years.