SIALKOT, May 12: The District Development Committee at a meeting presided over by its chairman, MPA Chaudhry Azeem Noori Ghuman, approved 245 development schemes for the district under the Tameer-i-Punjab programme.
Sialkot DCO Capt (Rtd) Zahid Saeed told the meeting that Rs5 million had been allocated for every constituency of the Punjab Assembly under the programme.
The meeting was told that funds had not yet been provided for the development of MPA Arshad Mehmood Baggu’s (MMA) PP-122, MPA Imran Ashraf’s (PML-N) PP-123 and MPA Tahir Akhtar’s (PPP) PP-124.
GIRLS’ COLLEGE: Announcing a grant of one million rupees for the area’s uplift, District Nazim Mian Naeem Javaid said that the district government would soon set up a degree college for girls at Jaamkey Cheema in Daska.
He was addressing a public meeting at Jaamkey Cheema after inaugurating the local UC building.
SEWERAGE: The Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) has claimed that the work on Daska’s sewerage system would be started in June. The Rs100 million project would be completed in two years and was expected to solve the decades old problem of choked sewers in the city.
PROCESSION: Hundreds of students of Daska’s Deeni Madaris took out a procession from the city’s Millad Chowk in connection with the Eid Milladu Nabi.
The procession passed through all major roads of the city. Participants, who were reciting Darood, pledged to spend their lives in accordance with the teachings of the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him).
PROTEST: Hundreds of surgical forging units continued their strike for the third consecutive day here on Monday to protest against the harassment they were allegedly facing at the hands of local officials of the sales tax department.
According to a press release issued here, representatives of the Sialkot Surgical Forging Hammers Association said: “We are ready to pay the general sales tax, but the officials of Sialkot Sales Tax department have been continuously harassing and blackmailing us by issuing fake notices.”
SEALED: Daska tehsil Drug Inspector Asif Farooq Awan has sealed four clinics and medical stores for prescribing veterinary medicines to humans and selling banned Bangladeshi and Indian drugs.
WATER SHORTAGE: Citizens of Pasrur are faced with a shortage of potable water, as the Rs1.7 million water turbine at Jinnah Gate has remained out of order since its installation on Feb 1.
