December 16, 2001	Sunday	Ramazan 30, 1422

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TOBA TEK SINGH, Dec 15: The delayed salaries of around two dozen ad hoc employees of the Irrigation department for the last seven months could not be paid to them even on Eid.

Pakistan Irrigation Employees Power Union leader Allah Bakhsh Sial said here on Saturday that these employees were recruited for the Jhang Branch Canal to look after its banks at night.

He asked the officials concerned to immediately pay their salary besides clearing outstanding TA bills of several months of regular employees.

APPOINTED: Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool has under Muslim family laws ordinance appointed all provincial Nazims as chairman of arbitrary councils in their respective union councils.

In a letter to Nazims of district union councils, they have been informed about the issuance of notification by the home department, Punjab.

They will be authorized to issue effectiveness certificates to the divorcees and to reconcile petty matters of the people of their respective areas.

UPLIFT SCHEMES: The district government will include three uplift schemes of Shorkot cantonment board (Jhang district) from the funds of Toba Tek Singh district council worth Rs1.1 million.

This was given out on Friday evening by Toba district Nazim Chaudhry Ashfaq in an iftar at PAF Rafique Airbase, Shorkot cantonment.

He said that three schemes were proposed by the Shorkot cantonment board because the areas under schemes were parts of the Toba Tek Singh district.

The schemes, he said, comprised construction of a link road between Shorkot Airbase and Sem Nullah worth Rs672,000, construction of a soling road between Shorkot Airbase to a mosque of Chak 701/43-GB and the completion of a government primary school building of Chak 701/43-GB worth Rs296,000. He said that schemes would be completed from the funds of the Khushhal Pakistan Programme.

The district Nazim requested Jhang district Nazim Sahibzada Hameed Sultan to allocate special funds for the construction of that portion of Toba-Waryamwala road which lay in the Jhang district.

Assuring the Toba district Nazim, the Jhang district Nazim said that funds would be approved for the purpose.

Meanwhile, the Toba district Nazim has asked union councils’ Nazims to pay surprise visits to government schools at least once a week to monitor the working of teachers.

In a directive to Nazims, he said the Punjab Education Minister Akhtar Saeed had proposed that the district government should ensure the regularity and punctuality of teachers.