Teachers appointed to Bhara Kahu girls college

Islamabad: The Federal Directorate of Education has appointed two teachers to the Islamabad Model College for Girls, Bhara Kahu, on temporary basis.

They’re Islamic Studies Associate Professor Shazia Wazir and Pakistan Studies Associate Professor Tahira Tamkeen, both of the Islamabad Model Postgraduate Girls College, G-10/4.

Last month, FG Margalla College for Women, F-7/4, Associate Professor Samina Ashraf was made the principal of the college, which is to begin classes next August.

The IMCG is the first government girls degree college in Bhara Kahu, the capital’s biggest rustic locality inhabited by around 300,000 people. Initially, the college will 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.

However, things were right back on course in August 2010 after the Capital Development Authority allotted over 40 kanals of land along the main Murree Road in Kot Hatial for the project.

The building has 16 classrooms, one auditorium and one laboratory each for physics, chemistry, home economics, biology and computer science, one library and an administration block.  It will be expanded under Phase II once the project’s revised PC-1 is approved.