It is a matter of immense pleasure and honour for me to be the Principal of Government College Balakot which is the secod biggest boys’ college of Mansehra JMC with respect to capacity, achievements of faculty and students, multiple educational activities, students’ enrollment, successful BS system and space. The feeding area of this college is a fertile land with reference to natural talent of its inhabitants.
This region was badly affected during devastating earthquake 2005 but the enthusiasm and knowledge thirst of students is exemplary. This college has a beautiful and spacious piece of land endowed with a marvelous landscape on the bank of river Kunhar. The faculty of GC Balakot is highly zealouz, cooperative and supportive at all levels. The faculty of this college had an idea about my skills and capabilities in accellerating pace of developmental works, enhancing elegance of an institution by means of renovation and uplifting educational standards through blowing the spirit of academic revolution among teachers and students, as I had performed while being the Principal of GPGC Mansehra in 2016-19 on account of which GPGC Mansehra progressed at galloping pace and was declared as the best college of KPK on the basis of allround performance. The faculty of GC Balakot specially the sons of this soil, also rendered due commitment of full assistance at the occasion of taking over the charge as Principal of this college. Getting convinced, I conducted meetings with faculty members at all levels, constituted a team of devoted and diligent comrades, chalked out a complete plan of action and started materializing the ideas from the first day i.e 16.11.2020 viz
1. Launching of College’s own Wall Calendar for the year 2021 and 2022 which have been distributed among Govt. Colleges and Offices of HED through out KPK.
2. Printing of College’s own Office Files and BS files.
3. Printing of Office Letter Pads.
4. Creation of College Logo in relevance to Kunhar valley and uniqueness of GC Balakot.
5. Installation of a large sized (20’x10′) college’s own sign board confronting Kaghan Road, bearing name, logo, vision statement and college profile. Main purpose of Sign Board is to affix panaflexes for displaying relevant and prominent activities/events to be periodically organized at the college campus.
6. Preparation of College flag through screen printing.
7. Installation of high rising flag poles in couplets for hoisting national and college flags at different prominent sites of the college campus.
8. Strengthening of college security system by upgrading CCCam system.
9. Launching of college’s official website www.gcbalakot.edu.pk which will be the icon of prestige of this college.
10. Launching of College’s official News Letter which will present the diverse nature of activities regularly organized at the college campus and it will serve as the banner of its honour.
11. Publication of state of art magazines of this college for the years 2020-21 and 2021-22 titled as “The Saif ul Malook”. On account of zest and creativity work of editorial board and students our both the magazines have been appreciated by the society.
12. BS System has been strengthened and extended by launching two more disciplines that is BS Chemistry and BS English from Fall 2021 beside previous 04 BS departments because BS system is deemed as the future of Govt. Colleges.
13. For inculcating the guts of curiosity and creativity work among students, the Grand Science Exhibition has been held at the college campus on 26-03-2022. Brain storming and mind provoking models and activities were created by the students of Intermediate and BS.
14. In order to revive the culture of book reading among students, a grand Book Reading Contest was organized at BS level under the supervision of a committee of Literature related senior faculty members. The best Book Reader was titled as “Student of the Year”.
15. On account of my consistent demand and visits to different quarters, administrative approval has been accorded by competent authorities for construction of
i. BS Block
ii. Multipurpose/Exam Hall
iii. Fund has been allocated for repair work and missing facilities.
iv. Demand has been launched for provision of two Mini Buses from surplus stock of other colleges to facilitate the students in transportation from two main feeding areas i.e Balakot city and Garhi Habib Ullah.
v. Library building etc.
Character and confidence building among students is duly focused. It is intended that model class system may be introduced for the brilliant Intermediate Science students of higher cognitive level so that an appreciable No. of excelling students could achieve distinctive positions in board exams and easily get admission in the professional colleges/Universities. I have clarified to the teaching faculty that it must be our strong belief that we belong to prophetic profession and we will have to come out of comfort zone and dedicate our services to lead the students and institution to excellence which should be our motto for Divine’s reward.
In short after fulfillment of all practicable ideas on the basis of zest of all collaborators as a team and provision of all missing facilities, GC Balakot could rightly be referred as Trend-Setter and leading college of KPK and its elegance is seeworthy at the moment.