Timergara Medical College is a blessing of God for Dir people: Siraj ul Haq

F.P. Report

TIMERGARA:  Jamaat-i-Islami chief and senator Siraj ul Haq has said the Timergara district head quarter hospital would soon get the status of a teaching hospital as classes in the Timergara Medical College (TMC) would start from next session.

Addressing a function at the proposed TMC at Rani here on Monday the JI chief said that establishment of the medical college had been his dream which was given a practical shape by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government.

Provincial minister for finance Muzafar Syed, deputy commissioner Lower Dir Atta ur Rehman, project director TMC Dr Shaukat Ali, district nazim Muhammaad Rasool Khan, MPAs Saeed Gul, Izaz ul Mulk Afkari, former MNA Maulana Asadullah, retired Brigadier Saeedullah Khan, JI activists and area elders attended the function.

Earlier the TMC project director Dr Shaukat Ali briefed the JI chief about the progress on the project and said that its PC-1 prepared according to the requirements of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) had been submitted to the health department.

He said the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had allocated Rs 3 billion for the establishment of medical college at Timergara. He said all arrangements had been finalized to start classes at the college from next session.

The JI chief said that medical students of Lower Dir, Upper Dir, Chitral, Bajaur and Malakand Agency would be benefitted of the college. He termed the college as a special blessing of Al-Mighty Allah upon the people of Dir. He said that education was started in Dir after the merger of Dir state in Pakistan in 1969.

The JI chief said that the area had great potentials and it had wonderful development in the sector of education during the last 47 years. “All the credit of the TMC goes to the local MPAs who forced the government to approve it,” Siraj said, adding it was his dream that came true. He said the construction of Blambat Irrigation channel and Koto Hydro-power station were two more achievements of the JI lawmakers.

Mr Haq said that it was the MMA government in the province that announced free education from grade 1^st to 10^th. He said the distribution of free text books among students of state run schools was another deed of the then MMA.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa minister for finance Muzafar Syed while speaking on the occasion said the JI believed in transparency, merit, peace and development. “We are workers not the masters and we believe in serving the masses,” the minister said, adding that work on several development projects was in progress in the district. He also announced approval of the PC-1 of Timergara Medical College on the occasion and said the government would ensure classes in it next year.

The college is being set up in a government building at Rani near Timergara. The building had been constructed for female students of elementary education in the past. The TMC project director Shaukat Ali said that classes would start temporarily in this building while its own building would be constructed somewhere else in the area.