200 acres of land allotted for a university in Karachi

By Mariam Siddiqui
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May 19, 2022
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Sindh's Land Utilization Department (LUD) has finally designated hundreds of acres of land for the construction of a new university in Karachi after nearly a decade.

According to reports, LUD Sindh has given the Universities and Boards Department 200 acres of land in the Deh Chhatara which is an area in Kemari, Karachi, for the building of Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University.

The land has been allotted under section 10(1) of the Colonization of Government Lands 1912, according to an official notification issued by Sindh's LUD to the Deputy Commissioner (DC) District Kemari.

Secretary LUD also asked DC Kemari to take the appropriate steps as soon as possible, in light of existing laws, to assist thousands of Kemari pupils.

The Punjab government declared in March that Viqar-un-Nisa Post Graduate College Rawalpindi would be upgraded to a women's university.

Rawalpindi became the first Pakistani city to have three women's universities as a result of this. The other two women's universities in Rawalpindi are Rawalpindi Women's University and Fatima Jinnah Women's University.

The increase of universities across the country is a sign of the revival of education and more literacy throughout.