Plan to build Rs260m access road for women college

LAHORE

The Punjab government has prepared a plan worth Rs 260 million to provide access road to the students of Government Fatima Jinnah College for Women, Chuna Mandi. 

According to a handout in this regard a meeting was held on Monday which was chaired by Punjab Minister for Higher Education and Chairman Board of Governors of Govt Fatima Jinnah College for Women Syed Raza Ali Gillani. Principal Prof Shehnaz Kausar and representatives of Higher Education Department attended the meeting.

The meeting was told this new facility would facilitate 3,000 students as well as the faculty members to easily make it to the college without any hurdle or hassle. The meeting discussed different matters including renovation of historic building and provision of wider access road to thousands of students and faculty members. The meeting discussed the issue of students’ obstruction in reaching the college due to various commercial activities in the close proximity.

The minister directed that renovation work of the college building should be done in a professional way to help preserve and restore its centuries-old grandeur. He commended the fact that the college has been providing quality higher education facilities to the girls of walled city for the last three decades. He approved construction of 10 new class rooms to accommodate the rising number of uptown students. Later, he visited different sections of the college. 

Cleanup: Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) Monday launched a cleanup operation in Gawala Colony, Harbanspura.  More than a hundred workers took part in the operation during which a large amount of manure was removed from the vicinity with the help of heavy machinery. More than 200 tons of waste was removed during the operation. 

Manager Operations Hassan Khalid, Assistant Manager Hamza bin Masood and Zonal Officer Zaki Shah supervised the operation whereas Deputy General Manager Asif Iqbal and senior Manager Operations Suhail Malik paid visit to review the operation. 

Manager Operations Khalid Hassan said Gawala Colony did not come under the jurisdiction of LWMC, but it launched the operation to make the area waste free. LWMC was planning to utilise more than 220 tons of animal waste in the locality for converting it into biogas, he said.