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GUJRANWALA, Feb 20: All ongoing development schemes should be completed by the end of current financial year otherwise the officials concerned will be taken to task.
This was stated by provincial housing and physical planning minister General Muhammad Tariq (retired) while speaking at a high-level meeting here on Wednesday.
He voiced his disquiet and resentment over the slow pace of construction of district council uplift schemes.
He directed the authorities concerned to initiate three-marla schemes in tehsils with the consultation of tehsil Nazims.
The housing and physical planning district officer told the meeting that around 450 acres of land in Gujranwala and 40 acres each in Kamoke and Wazirabad tehsils were being acquired for the purpose.
The minister allowed the EDO (works) to recruit daily wagers for buildings and roads’ research laboratories.
District Nazim Fiaz Ahmad Chattha, DCO and other senior officers of highways, buildings, public health, GDA, Wasa, labour and housing and physical planning were also present on the occasion.
BOOKED: The anti-corruption establishment on Wednesday booked nine government officials, including three directors of the housing and physical planning, in corruption cases.
Muhammad Mansha had informed ACE that housing and physical planning officials extorted from him Rs90,000 for the allotment of a five marla plot in Peoples Colony, but they issued him bogus documents. An inquiry was conducted which found the officials guilty of charges. Those booked are deputy directors Umer Hayat, Rashid Manzoor and Muhammad Sarwer, head clerk Shabbir Hussain, record-keeper Irshad Ahmad and clerk Wasif Raza.
It is learnt the clerk had received Rs10,000 in bribe from Muhammad Asif Butt for the allotment of a plot.
Meanwhile, two assistant education officers Shamim Chaudhry and Khalid Javed Awan and irrigation sub-engineer Khalid Javed Cheema were also booked on corruption charges.
