June 01, 2008	Sunday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 26, 1429

SWABI, May 31: The tehsil council Swabi through a unanimously adopted resolution on Saturday, demanded accountability of the contractors who allegedly used substandard material in the construction of projects financed by National Urban Development Project (NUDP) of the Asian Development Bank.

The council’s session was presided over by its convener Shamsul Qamar. The members, both from the treasury as well as the opposition said that the schemes completed under NUDP would never be durable, because the allocated fund was not utilised properly and according to the standard.

They alleged that the substandard work on various development schemes has caused humiliation, after contractors were given a ‘free hand’.

The council said that until accountability of the alleged corrupt contractors and officials is completed they should not be allowed to work on any project under the NUDP.

The councilors said that a visit to the under-construction projects could be sufficient for exposing the ‘corruption done’.

The contractors, they said, remained in association with the ‘corrupt’ officials of the Services and Works department.

Meanwhile, the council welcomed the constitutional package in which the renaming of the NWFP as Pakhtunkhwa has also been proposed.

They said that the renaming of the province would give identity to the people of the province. They said that it seems that finally their dream about the renaming of the NWFP would come true.