KASUR: After a wait of five months, the district government assigned sanitation monitoring to councilors on Monday.

Additional District Collector Muhammad Shahid told Dawn at his office the Kasur city had 50 wards and as many councilors.

The councilors, he said, would moniter the sanitary work in their wards and ensure the attendance of sanitary workers. Local government representatives were elected five months ago in phased elections, and since then they had been awaiting powers and duties.

Mr Shahid, also tehsil municipal administrate, said cleanliness was not possible without the participation of people through their representatives.

He said the municipality had started a cleanliness week from Monday. The launch was marked with councilors cleaning Baldia Chowk.

A few weeks back, District Police Officer Ali Nasir Rizvi and Mr Shahid had held meetings with Kasur and Chunian representatives and told them they would soon be given powers soon.

A PML-N councilor, requesting anonymity, told Dawn that the people of their wards had lots of expectations from them to resolve their problems. He said just assign them the monitoring of sanitation work was the insult of the public mandate.

He said that district government should have given them funds for the development of their areas such as paved streets, drains and gas installation.

Published in Dawn, July 26th, 2016