Muktsar, December 20

Higher Education Minister Pargat Singh today inaugurated two government colleges at Husnar and Danewala villages in the district. Meanwhile, some contract employees, teachers and unemployed youngsters showed black flags to the minister’s cavalcade at Danewala chowk in Malout town.

Later, Pargat Singh met some protesters, but they said the meeting failed to bring any result.

The minister said the newly inaugurated colleges would help youth in attaining higher education to get top positions in the government and private sectors. “A total of Rs 12.49 crore are spent on the construction of a college in Husnar village in Gidderbaha block. Similarly, an amount of Rs 12.82 crore is spent on the construction of a college at Danewala village in Malout block,” he said. — TNS