15 new degree colleges being established in KP, provincial assembly told Peshawar April 21, 2021 PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly was told on Tuesday that 15 new degree colleges were being established in the province during the financial year 2020-21. Replying to a question asked by Inayatullah Khan of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Higher Education Kamran Bangash informed the House that 15 new degree colleges would be established after third party validation of sites. He said the new colleges would be built on need basis. Inayatullah complained that he was provided the information that there were 263 degree colleges in the province, including the merged districts, out of which 143 were for boys and 116 for girls. He said that he was told that 52 more colleges were under construction, but the answer was incomplete as the list of tehsils where there was no college for girls was not provided.