LAKKI MARWAT: Lakki chief municipal officer Asmatullah Khan on Wednesday cancelled the Eid holidays of sanitation staff and formed different committees to ensure cleanliness in Lakki city during Eid days.

Chairing a meeting at his office, the chief municipal officer also reviewed arrangements made for making the urban locality clean and ensuring provision of drinking water to citizens during Eid. He asked the sanitary workers to remain present on duty during Eid days to remove remains of sacrificial animals.

He also directed the sanitary inspector to conduct fumigation in the entire urban locality to prevent diseases. He said the municipal employees with satisfactory performance would be rewarded while those with poor work would face stern action.

Asmatullah Khan called upon people to dump remains of sacrificial animals on specified places so the municipal employees could remove them easily.

SURPRISE VISIT: The elementary and secondary education department’s deputy district education officer Mohammad Sheeraz and assistant district officer (physical education and sports) paid surprise inspection visits to several government schools on Wednesday to check attendance of teachers and other employees.

The visits were arranged following public complaints that many teachers remained absent from schools. The district education officer had tasked the DDEO and ADO (PE&S) with visiting the schools in Naurang town and checking the attendance of teaching and non-teaching staff.

The officials went to primary and middle schools in Naser Din Begukhel, Muslim Bagh and Naurang localities.

The education officials also assured that shortage of teachers in primary schools would be overcome besides funds would be arranged for repair of classrooms.

They also assured that quarters concerned would be approached to construct additional classrooms in the schools where needed.

KIDNAPPED: A teenager was allegedly kidnapped from his house in Titterkhel village in the jurisdiction of Ghaznikhel police station on Wednesday.

A police official said that Faizan and Sifatullah along with three accomplices went to the house of Mohammad Yousaf to meet his son, Fahimullah. “They knocked at the door and overpowered Fahimullah when he came out,” he maintained.

The official said the kidnappers took away Fahim to an unknown place. Police registered case against the kidnappers and began efforts to ensure safe recovery of the kidnapped boy, said the official.

Published in Dawn, October 2nd , 2014