TOBA TEK SINGH, May 27: Revenue EDO Nazir Ahmad has been directed to prepare a detailed survey report of the district’s cultivated land and its irrigation water requirement so that the water shortage problem could be solved on permanent bases.

This order was given by Gujranwala army brigade command Brig Zubair Ahmad while speaking to government officials at the district council rest house here on Monday.

District Nazim Chaudhry Ashfaq apprised Brig Ahmad that the district would get 3,700 cusecs more water after the remodelling of canals with the financial assistance of the World Bank.

He also asked acting SP Kamran Khan to exchange the crime data with other districts to update the record of criminals operating in various areas.

District Zakat and Usher Committees chairman Dr Mahmood Akhtar Bajwa told him that cheques worth Rs24.9 million had been distributed to 971 deserving people in the district during the current year.

He said Rs62.6 million would be provided to 3,058 needy people under the government’s permanent rehabilitation programme in the next year.

Deserving applicants would be recommended by local zakat committees while Nazim, Naib Nazim and councillors of respected areas would verify their names, he added.

District Food Controller Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor informed the army official that 64 per cent wheat procurement had already been completed in the district. Out of 50,000 metric tonnes target, so far 32,120 metric tonnes of wheat had been purchased, he said.

A Passco official apprised Brig Ahmad that it had purchased 72 per cent wheat out of its target.

TWO MURDERED: Two women were murdered on Sunday night at different places in the district.