SANGHAR, Jan 7: The district council, at its Wednesday's session, adopted a resolution against the sale of fake fertilizers and pesticides and an inordinate increase in their prices.

Through another resolution, it demanded that the Left Bank Outfall Drain tube-wells, which were not working in the district, should be made operational. Taking part in the debate on the fertilizers/pesticides issue, Rana Shoukat, Pir Koral Shah, Yaqoob Kakepoto and others spoke against the sale of spurious pesticides and fertilizers and black-marketing of the original ones.

They said that a bag of the DAP was being sold for Rs925 while its original price was Rs848 and similarly higher prices were being charged for Urea, Nitrogen Phosphate and other fertilizers by the dealers.

The session formed a committee, with Mr Kakepoto as its head, to check the sale of spurious fertilizers and pesticide and control their prices. The district council members pointed out that most of the LBOD tube-wells in the district were out of order and at some places their power cables had been stolen.

They also complained that power was supplied to nearby villages from many tube-well connections. The executive engineer, Ashfaq Ahmed, told the session that there were no funds to run the tube wells.

During the debate on the education affairs, education EDO Mirza Aizaz Baig requested the union council Nazims to help him locate the closed schools and inform him about the teachers who remained absent from classes.

He said that there was a shortage of officers in the district education department. The grade-17 officers were posted against grade-19 posts and 17 vacant posts of grade-17, 24 of grade-18 and 21 other posts were lying vacant in the department, he said.