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GUJRANWALA, Aug 23: The district returning officer allowed two nazims of union councils to contest the election for the slot of Kamoki tehsil nazim after accepting their appeals against the decision of the returning officer here on Saturday.
RO/ASJ Masroor Zaman had rejected the nomination papers of Chaudhry Naseer Ahmad and Chaudhry Ehsanullah on the plea that they did not resign from their posts.
DIGITIAL EXCHANGES: The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) will establish 275 new digital telephone exchanges in the region besides laying 77,000 new lines with an amount of Rs1,500 million during the next three years.
This was stated by Gujranwala Telecom Region (GTR) general manger Muhammad Anwer while speaking at a meeting here on Saturday.
He said the wireless telephone system would be provided to subscribers on their demand which might work within 25 kilometre range of the digital exchange.
In the first phase, he said the wireless telephone system facility was being provided to Kamoki, Ghakkhar, Alipur Chattha, Daska, Sialkot, Mandi Bahauddin, Bhago Alipur, Adil Garh and other towns while the wireless system was being installed at digital exchanges.
He pointed out that the PTCL had made a record recovery of Rs3,998 million during the fiscal year 2002-03 besides laying 443,000 new telephone lines while 65,000 lines out of them were kept reserved to meet any emergency situation.
The GTR general manager revealed that 18 complaint number was being computerized for detecting wrong calls and any fault in the lines.
He claimed that the corrupt officials were being punished as two supervisors and as many linemen involved in embezzlement were chargesheeted and would be dismissed from their service if they were found guilty in an inquiry.
Roads’ destruction: The city tehsil council has resented the negligence of the telephone and Sui gas departments, which have destructed many newly constructed roads while laying cables.
The council has decided that the gadgets of these departments lying on roads will be confiscated and damages will be claimed, according to Nazim Babu Javed Ahmad.
Convening an emergent meeting on Saturday, the Nazim said the city tehsil council had recently constructed various roads with an expenditure of hundreds of thousands rupees to ensure smooth flow of traffic.
However, he said, the PTCL and the SNGPL development wings had damaged these roads while laying new telephone and gas pipes without informing the relevant department and depositing the cost of repairs.
He directed the council’s planning and engineering department to confiscate the goods of these departments until these offered charges for repairs.
INQUIRY: A high-level committee, constituted by Wapda chairman Lt-Gen Zulfiqar Ali Khan (retired) to probe power theft charges against the prime minister’s political adviser, recorded statements of the raiders and the chief suspect on Saturday.
Reports said the inquiry committee reached Tohang Bucha village at Wahando and recorded the statements of the relevant persons.
