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SIALKOT, May 30: The agriculture department has announced that it would establish nurseries on more than 112 plots to introduce farmers to a new paddy-growing technique called the “Parachute Technology”.
The announcement was made by the officials of district agriculture department who inaugurated a nursery at the Variyo village here. The agricultural department had imported a huge quantity of plastic trays from China for the purpose. The technology would help growers get more than 100,000 high quality paddy saplings from an acre, they claimed.
CHOKED WATER SUPPLY NETWORK: The water supply network in as many as 50 of the localities in Pasrur and its suburbs has been choked for the last two months due to lack of maintenance, some of the affected people told newsmen here on Friday.
Each of the 50 water schemes had cost Rs5 to 8 million, they said, adding that the Pasrur Tehsil municipal administration had made no serious effort to rectify the problem.
WORKDHOP: At the concluding session of a two-day workshop in a local hotel, the speakers urged the government to enact laws against sexual harassment of women at workplace.
The concluding session was presided over by Working Women’s Organization president Rubina Jamil.
In their speeches, Sialkot District Police Officer Amjad Javaid Saleem, Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry vice-president Malik Mohammad Ashraf, the WWO president and ILO and Unicef representatives said that Islam had given a respectable status to women in the society. Women, they said, were playing a pivotal role in national development in the country’s male-dominated society. They condemned exploitation of women at the hands of feudal lords.
STRIKE: Thousands of surgical forging industrial units on Friday continued their strike in various parts of the district, a press release stated.
The surgical industry is going through a critical phase, as the supply of raw material has been stopped for the last more than three weeks. The protesters iterate that the demand notices served on them by the sales tax department are unjustified.
Meanwhile, association District President Haji Muhammad Irshad and Secretary-General Muhammad Saleem Mughal have vowed to continue their strike till the withdrawal of the demand notices.
