Peki Training College to be rehabilitated

Peki, July 20, GNA - The Peki Government Training College is to undergo comprehensive infrastructure rehabilitation, the first major project in the institution since its establishment in 1954. Mr Kofi Dzamesi, the Volta Regional Minister, said this on Wednesday during a visit to the college as part of his two-day tour of the South-Dayi District.

He said the project would involve classrooms, dormitories, teachers' bungalows and building of ancillary departments to reflect the institution's status as a prime teacher training college. Mr Dzamesi promised to get the contracting firm working on the school's Assembly Hall to complete it before the end of the year. Mr Simon Tsadidey, the Principal, said academic performance had been good over the years with the college getting 100 per cent in last year's final examinations.

Regarding discipline, he said the college had not recorded any students' disturbances in its entire life span. Later, the chiefs of Peki held a meeting with the minister and appealed to the government to reconstruct the link roads to the Peki towns, build quarters' for nurses and a central market for the traditional area.

Mr Dzamesi also inaugurated a block to be used for the school's feeding programme at Kpalime-Chate, met with chiefs and headmen of Tongor-Kaira and Tongor Dzemeni.

At every meeting the minister stressed the determination of government to send development to all corners of the country and asked for support for the policies aimed at increasing enrolment in schools, increase access to health and raise incomes in the rural areas. Earlier on Tuesday, Mr Dzamesi inspected work on the District Police Headquarters, an Assembly Hall and other development projects going on in the South-Day District.