CHAKWAL, Oct 9: The district and tehsil nazims-elect unveiled their development plans for Chakwal and pledged not to compromise with land mafia.

Talking to mediapersons at his residence here on Saturday, the district nazim-elect Sardar Ghulam Abbas pledged to provide basic amenities to the residents on priority basis during his second tenure in office.

Mr Abbas said that the residents of Chakwal had been facing scores of problems like unavailability of clean drinking water and sewerage system since long and promised to solve these problems.

He said that health facilities were inadequate and vowed to provide health care facilities to the people at their doorsteps.

For this purpose dispensaries would be established at union councils level so that the people living in far-flung areas might not cover long distances for the treatment of minor ailments.

The dispensaries would directly be linked to the district headquarter hospital, he said.

He claimed that much attention had been paid during his first tenure to the district headquarters hospital (DHQ). A block of six rooms would be added to the hospital where services would be provided to the patients on private basis.

Regarding education, he promised to bring a cadet college to the area — a longstanding demand that remained unfulfilled for the past 20 years.

One high school for boys and girls each would be established in the city to meet the educational demands in the coming 10 years.

Each tehsil has different problems and they would be addressed according to their demands, said Mr Abbas who won the nazim slot in the third phase of local body elections on October 6 as the ruling Pakistan Muslim League official nominee by defeating Lt-Gen Majeed Malik, another PML dissident candidate.

The nazims and councillors would be taken along and the projects proposed by them would be given priority, he added.

“We will continue the development works that were initiated during the last four years”, he reiterated.

He thanked the people for reposing their trust in his group for the second time. He said the people voted the politics of principles rejecting those who tried to buy their right of opinion with lot of wealth at their disposal.

Speaking on the occasion the Tehsil nazim-elect Sardar Aftab Akbar who is also nephew of the district nazim, declared that he will not compromise with ‘land mafia’.

He said the lands sold by mafia would be redeemed and the poor would be given their rights back.

The public money that the corrupt elements gobbled in the past would be deposited in the exchequer.

He accused his opponents of trying to buy voters during the election but people rejected their offer and reposed trust on the leadership of Sardar Ghulam Abbas.

Projects proposed by the women members would be given special priority to help create an environment that women were playing their due role in the development process, he added.

Campaign against encroachers would be launched after relocating the vendors and stall operators to some other place so that it might not affect their business, he said.

He pledged to make the Ladies Club and Iqbal Library functional besides setting up children’s parks in the city.

Restoring the respect of commonman and equal disbursing of funds among the union councils of tehsil he declared his future agenda.