LAHORE - Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood laid the foundation stone of a new graduate block and also inaugurated a digital studio at National College of Arts (NCA) here on Saturday.
Addressing the ceremony organised in this connection, the minister was of the view that more students will be able to get admission in the NCA with the construction of the new block. Shafqat Mahmood mentioned that no government of the past had given as much budget for higher education as the current government.
Expressing happiness over the establishment of a state-of-the-art digital studio lab, the federal education minister congratulated the students and faculty members on getting the status of university. He said that the NCA had a prominent position in the art institutions not only in Pakistan but all over the world.
, assuring that with the status of university, the NCA will be improved further.
About the closure of schools due to coronavirus, he said: “Now the situation is not that bad to close the educational institutions. The closure of educational institutions due to coronavirus pandemic has already inflicted huge losses on the studies of students.”