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BAHAWALPUR, Jan 31: As many as 71 remote villages in Cholistan desert will be electrified during the current year. Official sources said on Tuesday that the work on the project was going on under Mepco’s construction division.
Besides, the sources said, under a comprehensive programme, the district’s over 200 rural areas would be electrified by the next year following a presidential directive to this effect. The programme was estimated to cost over two billion rupees.
UPLIFT SCHEMES: Total 665 school uplift schemes, costing over Rs238 million, were being executed in the district under chief minister’s reforms programme.
This was stated at the district development committee meeting chaired by DCO Muhammad Ashraf on Tuesday. District Nazim Tariq Cheema also participated in the meeting.
PPP PROTEST: Two rival PPP groups organized separate camps to protest against serving of red notices on party chairperson Ms Benazir Bhutto and her spouse Asif Zardari at Fowara Chowk here on Tuesday.
The first camp was set up by PPP district president Riaz Dahar, secretary-general Muhammad Ali Ahsan, city president Shakir Mirza and women wing chief Sajida Malik.
The second camp was set up by former CEC member Khan Muhammad Azad, former PA candidate Tatheer-ul-Hassan and others, who were opposing the party’s district body.
The camps displayed banners inscribed with anti-government slogans, while speakers on the occasion demanded withdrawal of the notices, release of party senior vice-president Yusaf Raza Gilani and return of Ms Bhutto.
