TIMERGARA: Speakers at a training workshop on Friday stressed the need for the local government representatives and secretaries of the union councils to have knowledge of budget preparation and management of income and expenditures in order to make the system result-oriented.

The two-day workshop on financial management for nazims and secretaries of 28 village councils of Timergara tehsil was organised by Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP) under its Community Driven Local Development (CDLD) project.

The SRSP’s Lower Dir human resource development officer Sahibzada Izharullah and district finance officer Waqar Khan shed light on duties and responsibilities of nazims and secretaries. The participants were told how to manage financial matters of the councils in accordance with rules of business.

Officials of SRSP provided training on preparation of budget, the new financial formats, management of income and expenditures for council besides utilisation of development and non-development funds.

Tangi village council nazim Najibullah told this scribe after the workshop that such trainings were essential for newly-elected local government representatives to be able to run the affairs of their councils in accordance with the law.

“We learnt things about which we had no idea earlier and we will try our level best to implement these in our councils,” Malikabad nazim Nawab Alam said.

Certificates were distributed among the participants at the end of the workshop.

SPEED-BREAKERS REMOVED: The local administration on Friday removed unnecessary speed-breakers on the Timergara-Khall Road on the directives of deputy commissioner Attaur Rahman.

Assistant commissioner Ishfaq Ahmad and Khall tehsildar Afzal Khan oversaw the removal of speed-breakers.

Earlier, the residents and traders of Adenzai, Talash and other areas had complained about unnecessary speed-breakers on the main Chakdara-Timergara road.

Mr Rehman directed the tehsildars concerned to remove the unnecessary speed-breakers from the roads across the district.

Published in Dawn, November 25th, 2017