CHITRAL: The Communication and Works Department will plant 6,000 saplings on the roadsides in Chitral during the current plantation campaign which will be used as landslide control regime in the hilly terrains, according to executive engineer Maqbool Azam.

The official launched the campaign by planting a deodar sapling on the premises of his office here on Saturday. Speaking on the occasion, he said that this was for the first time that the C&W Department was participating in the campaign.

He said that tree plantation had become inevitable in Chitral keeping in view its topography where landslides damaged the roads every year and road blockades created problems for the passengers.

He said that with the technical assistance of forest department such species of plants would be selected for plantation which had deep roots and capable of protecting the soil from erosion.

LITERACY DAY: Functions were held in Chitral on Saturday to highlight the importance of International

Literacy Day (Sept 8) and the issues impeding literacy rate.

District education officer Ihsanul Haq was chief guest at a function held in government high school, Balach, in which NCHD local official Afzal Khan and others said that Chitral was in a better position than many other districts of the province in the field of literacy.

The speakers showed satisfaction over the 100 per cent enrolment rate in both the boys and girls schools in the district.

A similar function was also held in Government Girls Centennial Model School, Chitral, where district education officer (female) Haleema Bibi, was the chief guest.

Published in Dawn, September 9th, 2018