HARIPUR, June 27: President Anjuman Kashtkaran Haripur Malik Goher Rehman has demanded shifting of revenue records to the building of the new district record office as they were being destroyed by silverfish. Talking to newsmen he said that Haripur was given the status of district in 1991 but the revenue records were shifted to Haripur in 1998 to a rented building of the defunct Swat Mills Colony where at least half of the records had been destroyed due to not being kept properly while the remaining was on the brink of destruction.

He said that a building with a room for keeping records was constructed within the vicinity of the Tehsil office some three years back with 80 per cent financial assistance from local farmers, industrialists and philanthropists, and added that however delay in the process of handing and taking over the work by the revenue department had brought things to a standstill as a result of which all records were being destroyed.

He said that village records of Haripur district had also not been shifted to Haripur from Abbottabad even after a lapse of 14 years.

Mr Goher said that he feared that a recent fire which broke out in the record room of district Abbottabad might have destroyed all records pertaining to Haripur.

He demanded shifting of records to the new record office in Haripur besides relocation of the existing record office to the new building without further delay.