Our Correspondent
Muzaffarabad
The Islamic Development Bank is spending 50 million rupees on the construction of 335 schools across Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
This was disclosed at a meeting presided over by Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan here on Friday.
The meeting was informed that out of 335 schools, work on 40 schools has been accomplished while remaining schools completed by December this year.
The Bank has also initiated a new project for early child education costing 25 million rupees.
Speaking on the occasion, Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan thanked Islamic Development Bank for its generous contribution in education sector and said the bank has launched the project in a time when the children were waiting their education under open sky in the earthquake affected areas.
