LAKKI MARWAT: The municipal committee will blacktop and widen three roads in the Lakki city, which were cleared of encroachments in recent months.

An official said on Monday that the local government and rural development department had been requested to approve funds worth over Rs20 for blacktopping and widening of Kargil Chowk-girls’ college road, Eidgah road and Lorry Adda-Saeedkhel road in the city.

He said that the municipal committee had cleared these roads of encroachments during last three months and also retrieved property of local council from land grabbers in the city.

After removal of illegal properties, the residents of urban locality had requested the deputy commissioner Syed Zafar Ali Shah to widen roads so as to protect them from being encroached upon again in future, he maintained.

The official said that local government minister Inayatullah Khan during a visit to Lakki city in July had also expressed concern over deteriorating condition of roads and promised to rebuild them.

He said that PC-1 of the project had already been prepared and forwarded to the concerned department for approval.

Meanwhile, on the request of the deputy commissioner, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Highway Authority and the forest department have provided an excavator and a tractor to the municipal committee to remove garbage lying on the city roads.

An official said that heaps of garbage emerged on the streets during the strike of municipal workers against nonpayment of salaries, last month.

He said that residents faced inconvenience due to filthy conditions in the urban locality.

“The poor hygienic conditions were also posing serious threats to health of citizens,” he said, adding that with meager resources the civic administration couldn’t clean the urban locality.

Published in Dawn, September 2nd , 2014

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