MP assists Nipa-Kutubu students

 STUDENTS from Nipa-Kutubu district attending tertiary institutions will be assisted with a K300,000 funding from local MP Pesap Jeffery Komal.

Komal said in Nipa, Southern Highlands, during the joint district priority committee meeting that he supported the government’s free education policy and tertiary students were important to the province and nation.

The meeting was held after the district management team briefing. 

Hundreds of people from Nipa-Kutubu flocked to Nipa to hear their MP’s plan for the district.

He said the government was helping parents whose children were attending the 11,340 schools in Papua New Guinea and it was equally important that tertiary students should be assisted too.

He also said K100,000 had been allocated to revive a university centre at Nipa to help dropouts facing difficulty in travelling to Mendi and Hagen to upgrade their  marks.

Southern Highlands technical college received K400,000. Komal said students moving around the country searching for technical schools often faced problems and many ended up in criminal activities.

“This technical college is very important and will greatly help our students. Students who fail their grade eight, ten and twelve can stay back in their district and upgrade their marks at the university centre,” he said.

Komal allocated K400, 000 for Nipa Secondary School and 30 sets of computers. Kutubu High School received K300,000 plus 20 computers.

“Education is the first on the list, followed by health, law and order, and other infrastructure,” he said.