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| December 7, 2001 | Friday | Ramazan 21, 1422 |
Growers assured of timely payment
BAHAWALPUR, Dec 6: The crushing season at Ashraf Sugar Mills began on Thursday with the assurance to growers that mills management and the district government would look after their interests.
At the inaugural ceremony of the crushing season, DCO Syed Shaukat Ali Shah said that payments to growers would be made without any delay.
He assured the growers that traffic police would not harass the drivers of tractor-trollies loaded with sugarcane.
He cautioned about the shortage of canal water and asked the cultivators to make alternate arrangements to cope with the situation in future.
Earlier, mills general manager Brig Abdul Aziz (retired) asserted that growers would get their payments promptly.
TAKES NOTE: District Nazim Tariq Cheema has taken notice of not properly rendering medical services to the patients by doctors of the THQ Hospital, Khairpur Tamewali.
During an open kutchery at Khairpur Tamewali on Thursday, the people lodged complaints with the district Nazim about the poor medical cover provided to them by medical officers.
He asked the Health EDO to conduct an inquiry into people’s complaints and ensure the presence of MOs in the hospital.
Regarding the complaints of the poor health and sanitation condition in the town, he directed the tehsil municipal officer to observe sanitation week from Monday next.
PRISONERS: Fifteen condemned prisoners are awaiting their execution in the New Central Jail, Bahawalpur, owing to their pending mercy and review petitions.
Nine of them have submitted their mercy petitions to the president while review petitions of the remaining inmates are pending with apex courts.
TWO KILLED: A youth and a three-year-old minor girl were killed in different incidents near here on Thursday.
Mukhtar Bibi’s daughter drowned in a canal after falling from a cot in Chak 28-DC.
Muhammad Ramzan of Chak 39-DB Yazman was crushed to death in a harvesting machine. He was to be married after Eid.