THATTA, Feb 11 MPA Humera Alwani of Pakistan People`s Party has called for revival of intermediate college in Ghorabari and said that it will help impart higher education to at least 800 students belonging to four far-flung coastal talukas of Thatta district every year.

Talking to a large number of parents during a recent visit to the dilapidated college building in Ghorabari, the MPA said that she had recently took up the issue at the floor of the Sindh Assembly. Sindh Minister for Education Pir Mazharul Haq had promised to revive academic activities soon after carrying out of renovation of college building, she said.

Ms Humera said she had also apprised the Sindh legislators that the college was established in 1999 during the first tenure of Benazir Bhutto as a gift to coastal people and till 2003, it remained under the supervision of education works department. She said the building comprises 14 class rooms, a laboratory, a library hall, and an auditorium remained non-functional till 2009, and developed cracks and become an abode for stray dogs.

Recently owing to collapse of the roof of primary school, the education department shifted the primary school students in one of the vacant hall of this college. She was astonished as to why the college was not made functional even after passage

of two decades. Being a non- SNE, the college had no budget to run the academic system.

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