SAHIWAL, Aug 9: The Punjab education department has appointed retired officers of the army, navy and the air force on a three-year contract as divisional and district coordination officers. They will get monthly salaries of Rs20,000 and Rs16,000, respectively.

A notification issued recently read that these officers would separately establish their checking cells at the divisional and district levels to take stock of purchases (including furniture) of the department.

Old furniture lying at offices and other assets the department had would be checked and verified from the departmental stock registers. The headmasters and other officials responsible for shortage or alleged pilferage would be brought to book, the notification said.

The divisional and district coordination officers would have the powers to get the cases registered for the shortage of the material. The coordinators appointed at the divisional headquarters are: Ms Robina Mazhar (Rawalpindi), Syed Mazhar Shah (Sargodha), Shoaib Iftikhar Ahmad (Lahore), Asif Abbas (Multan), Muhammad Ali Younis (Dera Ghazi Khan), Faisal Murtaza (Faisalabad), Rab Nawaz (Bahawalpur) and Muhammad Nawaz Zeeshan (Gujranwala).

At the district headquarters level, as many as 33 former servicemen's appointment has been notified.

KILLS SISTER: A youth allegedly killed his sister over suspicion of her 'loose morals' at Chak 57/5-L on Sunday. Reports said the youth had suspicion that his sister had developed illicit relations with a villager. He forbade her time and again from leaving the house, but she turned a deaf ear to his reminders. He killed his sister and was booked by Yousafwala police.