BAHAWALPUR, July 21: At least 10 farm field schools have been established in the district in pursuance of the decision of the Punjab agriculture department.
The farm schools will impart training to growers to help the department's manpower to repulse the pest attacks on cotton crop in their respective areas.
The establishment of the schools is the part of government's integrated post management (IPM) programme for the attainment of maximum cotton yield in the coming kharif crop. According to the DO (agriculture), officials of the department have been deputed in the schools to train the cotton growers to achieve the desired objects.
CYCLE-RICKSHAW: Justice Malik Farrukh Mahmood of the Lahore High Court (Bahawalpur bench) on Wednesday ordered the lifting of a ban on cycle-rickshaws. The order was issued on a writ petition of Arif Husain who had challenged the orders of former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif to ban the plying of cycle-rickshaws here.
The former prime minister had eliminated the cycle-rickshaws under a package by providing loans to the owners and drivers of cycle-rickshaws to purchase auto-rickshaws and repay loans in easy instalments. Since then, there was ban on plying of cycle-rickshaws, which was described as inhuman act.
In his judgement, the judge termed the ban a conflict with the articles 18 and 25 of the constitution. He further mentioned that presently cycle-rickshaws were also plying in one of the states of the US and that there was no legal justification for its ban.
