LAKKI MARWAT: The tehsil municipal administration (TMA) razed temporary and permanent structures during an anti-encroachment operation in Serai Naurang here on Friday.

The operation was launched following public complaints about traffic mess in the urban locality. Additional assistant commissioner Aminullah Khan supervised the action.

The TMA’s anti-encroachment squad led by tehsil municipal officer Qudratullah Khan Marwat demolished illegal structures with the help of machinery.

It also removed illegal parking stands from the old hospital road. On this occasion, the TMO said that the urban road had been cleared of illegal encroachments.

Action launched to ensure smooth traffic flow

He said land grabbers and encroachers deserved no leniency and asked the traders to carry out business activities within their shops and avoid encroaching on roads.

SMALL DAMS: Additional deputy commissioner Mohammad Anwar Sherani has said that the government has launched a project to build small dams in rain-fed areas to boost agriculture.

He was speaking at the best rice grower award ceremony in the model farm services centrehere on Friday. District director agriculture Abdul Qayyum Marwat, members of farm service centreand rice growers were in attendance.

On this occasion, Mr Qayyum said that local farmers cultivated rice on vast tracts of land in parts of the district after getting subsidised seed from the agriculture department under the PM’s Agricultural Emergency Programme.

The department’s experts held sessions with growers and motivated them to grow rice crop.

Mr Sherani distributed cash prizes among the best rice growers and said the government was committed to resolving problems being faced by the farmers.

ROAD PROJECT: The provincial government has approved a rural road project to link Shahtora Takhtikhel and other rural localities with Serai Naurang town of Lakki Marwat district, said an official on Friday.

He said the Provincial Development Working Party in its recent meeting had formally approved the project. He said that construction of the nine-kilometre road would enable the residents of three union councils to have easy access to Naurang town.

Published in Dawn, January 1st, 2022