New junior college in India for expat females

Expatriates living here have another schooling option for their female children in India, with a new institute offering grades eight to 12 in Bidar, Hyderabad and Bangalore.
The Shaheen Group of Institutions is offering education for female Non-Resident Indian (NRI) children in preparation for engineering, medicine and law.
The group's services were outlined at an event organized by the Socio Reforms Society recently. Those in attendance included community activists Aleem Khan Falaki, Ashfaq Maniyar, Osman Abbasi, Naser Khursheed, Abdul Basith and Mohsin Khan.
Others in attendance were Abdul Qadeer, the chief guest, founder secretary of the Shaheen Group and secretary of Allama Iqbal Education, Bidar in Karnataka; and Syed Aneesuddin, in charge Challenger Junior College (CJC). The guest of honor was Raghib Quraishi, education consul at the Indian Consulate in Jeddah.
Khan welcomed the guests and introduced the Shaheen Group, which recently established a girls' institute in Hyderabad with a hostel, in cooperation with the CJC. The facility is to prepare the students for medical, engineering and other careers, he said.
Qadeer said the institute started with a few students in a room in Bidar and now has branches in Hyderabad and Bangalore. Last year, 79 students from the Shaheen institute received admission to the best government medical colleges. A total of 355 were admitted to engineering courses, and 23 to other courses.
He said Shaheen has provided relief for hundreds of NRI parents who had worried about their children’s education.
He said that the institute provides a chance for all students, including those from poor communities, and others who have dropped out, to become doctors and engineers.
The institute has a facility to learn the Holy Qur’an.
The institute in Hyderabad has a hostel with classes from grade eight to 12. It would provide for boys in future.
More than 900 students are studying at Shaheen institutions.
Quraishi praised the institute and the Socio Reforms Society for their efforts to provide proper education for children in India.