Construction Bills for Khatoon-e-Pakistan Girls High School

Sub title : Donation Acknowledgment, and Educational Certificates of Altaf Kureishy

Subject: Khatoon-e-Pakistan Girls High School | Haydari Construction Company | Construction bills

Date of publication: 1947

Language: English

Page: 151 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 28827

Keyword: Khatoon-e-Pakistan Girls High School -- Haydari Construction Company -- Construction bills | Miss Fatima Jinnah -- Donation -- Altaf Kureishy | University of Liverpool -- Diploma in Education | University of Karachi -- M.A. Islamic History | Aligarh Muslim University -- B.A. | Montessori certificate -- Y.W.C.A.

Abstract: Haydari Construction Company Limited for the Khatoon-e-Pakistan Girls High School, dated February 1958, listing material costs (cement, polishing materials, shuttering wood, electric installations, glass, oil distemper, sanitary materials, tiles, paints, etc.) totalling Rs. 57,440-10-0 after deduction for empty cement bags, and labour payments (block making, white washing, oil painting, polishing, drainage, tiling, road work, plaster, etc.) totalling Rs. 50,450-6-0. A letter (25 February 1958) from Miss Fatima Jinnah to Ahmed B. Khan acknowledges receipt of a cheque for Rs. 500 as a contribution to the Khatoon-i-Pakistan Education & Welfare Board, enclosing a receipt.

Description: This file contains a mixed collection of records from the late 1940s to 1958. The first part documents the construction of the Khatoon-e-Pakistan Girls High School in Karachi, with detailed itemised bills from Haydari Construction Company for materials (cement, wood, paints, tiles, etc.) and labour (block making, plastering, road work, etc.) in February 1958, along with a letter from Miss Fatima Jinnah acknowledging a donation. The second part comprises the educational credentials of Altaf Kureishy, including a Liverpool University Diploma in Education, a Karachi University M.A. in Islamic History, an Aligarh B.A., a Montessori teaching certificate, and a Y.W.C.A. reference. The juxtaposition of construction accounts and personal academic records is unusual; the documents may have been filed together incidentally. The construction bills provide insight into the costs of building a girls’ school under Miss Fatima Jinnah’s patronage, while the certificates illustrate the qualifications of an educator from the same period. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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