Nawaz inaugurates Forest Services Academy, Murree

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MURREE: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday inaugurated the Forest Services Academy at Ghora Gali under the PM’s Green Pakistan Programme. He planted a sapling at the academy’s premises and visited its various sections, besides interacting with the faculty members and students. The PM’s focal person on climate change, Syed Rizwan Mehboob, briefed the prime minister on the features of the academy and its objectives to help mitigate climate change and undertake research on forestry. He said that the academy would provide in-service and postgraduate training in forest sciences. He said the academy’s first phase had been completed with a cost of Rs 59.29 million, while the second phase would be finished by 2020.

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