June 26, 2003	Thursday	Rabi-us-Sani 25,1424

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RAWALPINDI, June 25: The Union Council 19, Satellite Town, has constituted an anti-encroachment team which would check growing encroachment cases in the area.

The decision was taken on Wednesday at a meeting held here at the UC 19 Office. About 18 councillors from the area participated in the meeting presided over by UC Nazim, Imran Hayat.

The team members, including acting Naib Nazim, Abdul Ghayoor Butt and councillors, Abdul Hakim, Navid Sadiq, Asad Nazir, Nasir Mir, Tahir Iltaf and M. Rashid Abbasi

will carry out inspections and bring encroachment cases into the notice of the concerned Nazim.

The councillors said encroachments in the area were on the rise. Establishment of an artisan school for women in the locality was also sanctioned at the meeting.

The meeting informed that two seats - of Naib Nazim and woman councillor— were laying vacant since September 10, 2002. The elected members on those seats had resigned.

The councillors said according to the Local Government Ordinance 2001, Clause 156

sub-section 4, by-poll for the vacant seats of Naib Nazim should be held within 60 days of the acceptance of the resignation of the member by the government.

However, so far no by-poll had been held for the election of the new members on those vacant seats, they added.

An unanimous resolution was also passed at the meeting wherein a general councillor, Abdul Ghayuoor, was elected on the vacant seat of Naib Nazim, which had been vacated by Raja Aatif Mehmood Kiani.

The name of the new Naib Nazim was also sent to the district government for approval.

In the resolution, the councillors also criticized the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) for not installing two new tubewells in the locality.

Almost all the councillors complained about the unavailability of water in their areas.