June 24, 2008	Tuesday	Jamadi-us-Sani 19, 1429

ATTOCK, June 23: The district monitoring office (DMO) on Monday resumed the day-to-day monitoring of the government departments to check attendance of the officials, it has been learnt.

The action has been taken after the officials were found frequently absent in their offices, causing hardships to the people.

According to sources, District Coordination Officer (DCO) Saqib Zafar has directed the DMO to carry out surprise inspections all the government offices to look into the attendance.

He also asked the officials to submit report on daily-basis about the officials who were late-comers.

Following the directive, the monitoring teams started paying surprise inspection visits to the government departments, including health, education and revenues on the opening hours on Monday and found a number of officials absent, late-comers and with unauthorised leave.

Inspection report of the visit will be submitted to the DCO’s office on Tuesday, the sources said.

Earlier in the first week of May, the DCO had not only conducted surprise visits at the offices but had also assigned the DMO’s teams to carry out inspections.

The people visiting the government offices were facing problems because of the officials’ absence and complained to the DCO about the menace.

Govt fails to provide any relief to masses: Tehrik-i-Istaqlal (TI) Chief Rehmat Khan Wardag on Monday said despite getting clear mandate of the masses the government was not focussing on real issues and had failed to provide any relief to the public.

Talking to Dawn he said the PPP government had deprived 20 million acres of irrigation water and 40 million people of electricity by shelving Kalabagh dam project.

He said under 2016 Water Vision, five dams including Kalabagh dam were to be constructed, which would usher Pakistan in an era of development.

Despite footing Rs360 billion annual import bill of furnace oil the government could not overcome power crisis. The amount could be utilised on construction of a big dam.

He called upon the masses to rise to the occasion and make efforts for the construction of big water reservoirs instead of restoration of judges.