Drug addicts dwell in two colleges of Dhoke Syedan that await completion

SSDO launches campaign for completion of two educational institutions

Rawalpindi

Youth Accountability Ambassadors working under Sustainable Social Development Organization (SSDO) visited the premises of the two colleges of Dhoke Syedan and saw the drug addicts dwelling there. They have taken refuge as they easily slip into the premises and have a ball right under the nose of the city administration.

The Youth Accountability Ambassadors have taken the issue on board and plans to start a massive campaign for right of citizens’ education. They will start a campaign to create awareness in the local residents about the issues of colleges to involve them in the campaign. The campaign will include corner meetings, public forums in the college buildings, protests and sit-in till the completion of colleges.

The Punjab Government failed to complete Degree Colleges in Dhoke Syedan in eight years despite spending Rs42 million from public exchequer. Youth Accountability Ambassadors of SSDO launched massive campaign for completion of two degree colleges which are incomplete since 2007. Thousands of residents of NA-54 and NA-52 are unable to get higher education on their doorstep due to unavailability of colleges.

Sustainable Social Development Organization (SSDO) in collaboration with Accountability Lab and Making all voices Countable to launch a massive campaign for completion of two degree colleges in Dhoke Syedan, Rawalpindi. Youth Accountability Ambassadors to start meetings with local residents of Dhoke Syedan to take them on board for a massive campaign for completion of colleges.

Syed Kausar Abbas, executive director of the Sustainable Social Development Organisation (SSDO), while talking to ‘The News’ here on Tuesday, said that despite spending Rs42 million from public exchequers the Government of Punjab has failed to complete buildings of two degree colleges for boys and girls in Dhoke Syedan for the last eight years. He said that the project of two Government Degree Colleges Dhoke Syedan Chowk, Rawalpindi, was started in 2007 by Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi and Muhammad Basharat Raja Ex-Law Minister but the Government of Punjab could not start the classes in both the colleges from last eight years. He told that Rs42 million were spent on these buildings in the financial years 2007-8 and 2008-9 but later on the PML-N government in Punjab stopped funds for these colleges due to political reasons. He further said that these are the only colleges of NA-52 and NA-54 and the students do not have the opportunity to get access to higher education in their area. The students have to travel long distance to Rawalpindi city or Islamabad to get higher education.