KARAK: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has released Rs180 million for providing missing facilities to primary schools for boys in the district.

`The amount would be utilised through the parent teacher councils. The head teachers of the all primary schools have been asked to withdraw the amount from the banks,` Nisar Ahmad Khattak, the sub-divisional education officer, told Dawn.

He said that the funds would be utilised for construction of boundary walls, group lavatories and additional classrooms and provision of water to the schools. He said that in remote area where electricity was not available, solar system would beinstalledin the schools.

Mr Khattak said that the funds would be utilised with the mutual consultations of the teachers and parent teacher councils. He said that district administration was already updated about the funds and the matter was discussed in the meeting of steering committee, headed by the deputy commissioner.

The official said that deputy commissioner assured the education department that full cooperation would be ensured with the department to utilise the funds transparently. He hoped that basic problems in the schools would be resolved to a great extent and it would produce far lasting effects on the quality of education.

Mr Khattak said that utilisation of funds through PTC was proven successful as the communication and works department was constructing a room at a cost of Rs1.6 million while PTC constructed the same room by spending Rs800,000.

The official said that conditional grant was not provided to all schools of the district. He expressed the hope that funds would be provided to the remaining schools in the second phase.

CLASSES: Prof Mirza Jan, the chairman of communication and media studies department of Khushal Khan Khattak University, has said that M Phil classes would be started in the department in near future.

He was addressing the welcome party organised by the senior students of the department for the newcomers here on Wednesday. He said that computer laboratory for the students of the department would be completed soon.

Prof Mirza Jan appreciated the performance of the students, saying that he was proud of them. He said that the problems of the students would be resolved on priority basis. Correspondent