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Essay Competition Ceremony held

By Our Correspondent

GARUMCHASHMA: An Essay competition ceremony held in Garamchashma, which was conducted by Islamud Din Principal Pamir Public School & College Garamchasma. Cash price of Rs. 20000/= was paid to Miss Saadia Sabir, F.Sc Pre- engineering student of Pamir Public School Booni who has topped on line essay competition. The prize money was handed over to her by the Principal, Pamir Degree College Garamchashma, in an impressive ceremony participated by teachers and students of the College here today.

In his speech on this occasion Principal Pamir Degree College Mr. Islamuddin who was organizer and jury of the competition, thanked Mrs. Nighat Rooziman for sponsoring the competition and wing commander ® Fardad Ali Shah for offering his website to the competition free of cost. He also thanked Mr. Saifur Rehman of Chitraltimes.com for his services in this behalf.

Elaborating the objective behind the competition, Mr. Islamuddin said that the purpose of the competition was to promote creativity and competitive spirit among students and create awareness about issues relevant to Chitral’s all round development. He said that Miss Saadia, in her essay, has highlighted the need to change mindset and Mr. Nazrul Islam has called for reforms in education to jump start Chitral’s development. He informed that in all 15 youth participated in the competition which was below expectation as we had hoped for more than 100 participants. Two of the essays were adjudged best and prize was given to Miss Saadia and the other winner, Mr. Nazrul Islam of Pamir Degree College Garamchashma was excluded from the competition for being the son of the jury member.

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CM approved Developmental Project for Chitral District

Chitraltimes Report

PESHAWAR: On the special request of NWFP Minister for Population Saleem Khan, the NWFP Chief Minister, Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has approved various developmental projects of Public Welfare for district Chitral under the Chief Minister directives. These projects include establishment of govt. Girls Degree College Drosh and Civil Dispensary Domail (Arandu), Construction of Tehsil Municipal Administration Building Mastuj and Hostel for Girl Degree College Chitral and installation of Water filtration plants in eleven Union Councils including Chitral-I, Chitral-II, Broz, Drosh, Kuh, Kosht, Khot, Geram Chashma etc.

In a weekly meeting of MPAs with the Chief Minister, Saleem Khan had requested the Chief Minister to specially focus on developmental project in Chitral under the Chief Minister directives keeping in view the backwardness of Chitral.

On this occasion the Chief Minister also approved 15 million rupees for special repair works and purchase of equipments in three degree colleges of Chitral including Govt. Boys Degree College Chitral, Govt. Girls Degree College Chitral and Govt. Boys Degree College Booni. It is worth mentioning here that no repair work had been carried out in these college for the past eight years.

The Chief Minister also approved a Day Care Centre in Govt. Girls Degree College Chitral for looking after the Kids of the female teacher during their duty hours. Provincial Minister Saleem Khan on behalf of the people of Chitral, has thanked the Chief Minister for taking special interest in the development of Chitral.