History

HISTORY:

With this drop of ink at the end of our pen, we shall show you the roomy red –coloured building, in the city of Okara, once known for its Cotton Mills at the far end, as it appeared on the eighteenth of August, 1958 when the foundation stone was laid at the very heart of the Main Hall as a badge to a dignitary. In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the countryside -- and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their spinning-wheels of polished black sesame – this building peeped from among the untrimly high wooded and low-wooded trees on the high rising towers of two great Mosques on one side and with the eye of a visionary on the great park which was later to be called the Company Park and the Okara Stadium. This C-shaped building has been adorned with a number of foundation stones starting from the humble origin of a Primary School in 1910 to a Postgraduate College in 1996.This imperial building, with comfortable dwelling-house in north-western corner, as old as indigenous neem, banyans, brahminee fig trees and red gums that shelter it from the southern side, welcomes thousands of the thirsty-for-knowledge.

The College was established in 1958 when the District Administration and the Municipal Committee fulfilled the cherished desire of the masses to upgrade M.B High School to College. The Provincial Minister Mukhdoomzada Hassan Mehmood laid the foundation stone of the College on Aug. 30, 1958. Mr. Abbas Akhter Sheikh took the charge of the office on Dec. 22, 1958 and thus the classes started in the college. 

In 1963, the college was upgraded to the degree level and a separate faculty for women commenced. The Government nationalized the college in 1973 and many new subjects were introduced in the College. New labs and lecture theaters were constructed.
In 1986, the B.Sc. classes started in the College.

With the changing circumstances, College has adapted itself to cater the need of the day by introducing IT, I. Com and Masters in Economics and English. This alma mater has weaned thousands of the first rank politicians, professors, doctors, engineers, civil and military officers, lawyers, business magnates, athletes and showbiz stars. The Government Postgraduate College is a herald in setting its traditions of quality education, uncompromising discipline.