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BADIN, Sept 26: The district coordinator of the Tawana Pakistan Project, Mohammad Qaisar Anees, on Wednesday filed an FIR against the owner of a Lahore-based company, its manager of operations and in-charge of the company’s warehouse in Badin on charges of supplying substandard and expired milk and biscuits to the government primary schools.
The project, run by the Federal Ministry of Social Welfare and Special Education, aims to distribute milk and biscuits among the girl students of primary schools, as a means to encourage parents to enrol their daughters in schools.
Mr Anis confirmed that he had found biscuits distributed at the main Sindhi Government Girls Primary School in Badin carrying black fungal marks and non-eatable able.
He sent some samples of the biscuits and milk for tests to Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Environment Analytical Laboratory, which revealed the milk was unfit for human consumption.
The ministry discussed putting a stop to the supply of diet after reports of provision of expired milk and substandard biscuits, he said and added that complaints of vomiting after consuming the diet were pouring in from the children’s parents.
SHOW-CAUSE: District Coordination Officer Ahmed Bux Khokhar on Wednesday issued show-cause notices to 52 field teams of the National Programme for Improving Watercourses and warned them of action if they did not improve their work within 15 days.
He said at meeting on watercourse management at Darbar Hall that the field staff and farmer organisations had achieved zero result during 15 days target.
The meeting was informed that at least 42 watercourses were damaged during recent rains due to use of substandard material and some FOs comprising influential landlords had usurped the government money, which they had received to construct watercourses.
The DCO directed the mukhtiarkars of all five talukas of the district to prepare lists of defaulting landlords and inspect the material used in the construction of watercourses.
