FAISALABAD: The Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association, Faisalabad, has decided to launch a protest drive for the restoration of the years old status of the Government College for Women, Madina Town.

The college was upgraded as university in December 2011.

The decision was taken at a meeting presided over by Yaldez Fatima, president of the PPLA, Madina Town college, on Friday.

Talking to Dawn, Ms Fatima said Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had already restored the old status of a college in Multan.

She said the Madina Town college was a facility for girl students of all segments of society to pursue higher education on affordable fees.

She urged the CM to restore college`s old status and establish a new university on 400 acres of land earmarked in Makoana.

Prof Riazul Haq, divisional president of the PPLA, said they were not against the higher education but that should not be at the cost of the decades old institutions.

RURAL WOMEN: Rural women must be edu-FAISALABAD: The Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association, Faisalabad, has decided to launch a protest drive for the restoration of the years old status of the Government College for Women, Madina Town.

The college was upgraded as university in December 2011.

The decision was taken at a meeting presided over by Yaldez Fatima, president of the PPLA, Madina Town college, on Friday.

Talking to Dawn, Ms Fatima said Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had already restored the old status of a college in Multan.

She said the Madina Town college was a facility for girl students of all segments of society to pursue higher education on affordable fees.

She urged the CM to restore college`s old status and establish a new university on 400 acres of land earmarked in Makoana.

Prof Riazul Haq, divisional president of the PPLA, said they were not against the higher education but that should not be at the cost of the decades old institutions.

RURAL WOMEN: Rural women must be edu-cated to enable them to play their due role in prosperity of the country.

This was stated by the wife of Punjab Governor Parveen Sarwar while addressing a farmers` convention arranged by the University of Agriculture Faisalabad on Friday.

She said women empowerment, education, interfaith harmony and rural development were imperative to compete globally, adding that women empowerment was prerequisite for development as they composed more than 50pc of the country`s population. She said nations could not make progress without participation of women in socio-cultural activities.

Ms Sarwar distributed hens, wheat and vegetables seed among the participants of convention halling from flood-hit areas.

UAF Vice-Chancellor Dr Iqrar Ahmad said we had surveyed the schoolchildren in Athara Hazari and rehabilitation would be started soon. He said the university was making efforts for the rural development.

Director General Extension Dr Anjum Ali Bhuttar and Faculty of Agriculture Dean also spoke.