July 27, 2002	Saturday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 16,1423

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MITHI, July 26: The members of the district council, Tharparkar, passed a number of resolutions on the fourth day of its session on Friday and demanded the government to stop the recovery of local taxes and agriculture tax, etc., in Thar, which has been declared calamity-hit by the government.

It also demanded the government to pay compensation to those whose houses were badly damaged in an earthquake.

Moving a motion at the council’s session on Friday, a member, Bhan Singh Kolhi, pointed out that even though the government had declared the entire Tharparkar District as calamity-hit but the revenue personnel were recovering local funds, agriculture, and other taxes from the impoverished growers, which should be stopped forthwith.

Supporting his motion, council members adopted an unanimous resolution urging the authorities concerned to stop such unjustified recoveries.

Moving another motion, a council member, Dalpatrai, contended that though thousands of houses of the poor inhabitants of Thar had been damaged by an earthquake in January 2001, regarding which the civic agencies concerned had also carried out a survey, but the government had provided no compensation to its victims.

The members supported the motion and passed a resolution regarding it.

Apart from these three resolutions, the council passed another 31 proposals by its members, which included providing staff to a higher secondary school at Nagarparkar, sanctioning a girls middle school at the Janjhi village, sanctioning the construction of boys primary schools at the villages of Arnario, Mithrio Otha, Charoda, Jhangh Parhayo, and Goravio.

Water supply: The Tharparkar District Council, through a resolution, passed on the fourth day of its session on Thursday, demanded of authorities concerned to stop contractors from destroying rain water reservoirs.

It further demanded to sanction more tube-wells, wells and water supply schemes to ensure provision of potable water to locals.

Through another resolution, the district council demanded to remove encroachments on the pathway leading to Shamshanghat (graveyard of minorities) in the south east of Mithi town.

A female member of the council, Tara Bai, tabled the resolution, pointing out that certain elements had recently raised encroachments in the south of Mithi police station on the path leading to the graveyard of minorities, creating problems for minority people.