Iqbals alma mater declared dangerous

Our Staff reporter SIALKOT - The Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) has finally declared as many as 147 years ancient building of Govt Christian High School, the alma mater of Allama Iqbal, the Poet of the east, as dangerous, advising the district education department officials to shift the school to any other safe and suitable building immediately, enabling the students to get their education in a safe building after the summer vacation. The TMA Sialkot finally wake up after the collapse of an outer wall and an ancient classroom of the school during heavy rain in city two days ago. Luckily, no one was present there in the building at the time of the collapse due to the summer vacation. TMA Administrator Pervaiz Iqbal Butt visited the collapsed-school building and declared it as dangerous building. He asked the departments concerned to ensure early rehabilitation of the school building, which had been established in 1864 and since then no money, even a single penny had ever been allocated for its repairing.

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