Balochistan's Education Minister, Raheela Hamid Khan Durrani, has distributed the keys to 15 buses among college principals to ease travel for students, and pledged that 100 more air-conditioned buses would follow in the next phase.

The keys were handed over at a brief ceremony at the Government Girls Postgraduate College in Quetta on Sunday. Speaking at the event, Durrani said the second phase of the scheme would provide 100 modern, air-conditioned buses to girls' and boys' colleges across the province.

Director Colleges Muhammad Hussain Baloch, Project Director Colleges Ashfaq Baloch and Joint Director Saeeda Baloch were among those present.

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The handover adds to a series of student-welfare measures the education department has rolled out in recent months, including a pink scooty scheme for female students, digital tablets for teachers, and the free distribution of textbooks part of what the provincial government describes as a wider push to improve access to education in Balochistan.

For college students in a province where distance and the cost of daily travel keep many away from campus a barrier that weighs especially heavily on young women reliable transport is a practical concern as much as a symbolic one. Whether the promised 100 buses materialise, and reach colleges beyond the provincial capital, will be the measure of the scheme.

Published in Balochistan Dispatch, August 3rd , 2026