KARAK: The members of All Subject Specialists Association have demanded one-step promotion and complained that the government is not resolving their genuine problem.

The demand was made in a meeting of the association held here on Tuesday with its district chairman Ahmad Khattak in the chair. Mohammad Iqbal Marwat, a member of the association, told journalists after the meeting that provincial government upgraded different cadres of teachers but subject specialists were working in the same scale. It was injustice with them, he added.

He said that the upgradation policy of the government was not uniform as senior subject specialists, subject specialists, principals, vice principals and assistant district education officers were not upgraded. The subject specialists vowed to continue their struggle to get their rights.

WATER PLANT: The elders of Latamber Qaumi Jirga have demanded of the government to make functional a water filtration plant in the area.

Addressing a meeting of the residents of the area here on Tuesday, president of the jirga Siraj Khan and Dilfaraz Khan said that the water filtration plant was still not functioning despite its inauguration by the adviser to chief minister.

They said that the water borne diseases were common in the area as the water was not fit for human consumption. They alleged that the filtration plant was set up at a wrong place by the department without consulting with the local people. They asked the public health engineering department to make the filtration plant functional as early as possible.

POWER SUPPLY: The local right organisations threatened to launch a protest movement if Pesco did not make sure smooth power supply to the people in the holy month of Ramazan.

A joint meeting of Chountra Welfare Organisation and Qaumi Tehreek here on Tuesday showed resentments over unscheduled power loadshedding in the district.

The participants of the meeting said that government failed to fulfil its promise to end loadshedding in Ramazan across the country. “The power loadshedding has created shortage of drinking water in the district,” they said.

They set 24 hours deadline for Pesco to end unscheduled loadshedding. They said that more than 20 hours loadshedding was being observed in the district.

Published in Dawn, June 8th, 2016