TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 3: The district council unanimously passed a resolution on Saturday to demand restoration of membership of all those Nazimeen or Naib Nazimeen of union councils who had resigned from their offices to contest the general election but failed to get elected.

District Naib Nazim Haji Ghulam Rabbani told the councillors that Tehsil councils of the district were collecting those taxes that were not in their jurisdiction. The district Nazim should immediately call a district advisory committee meeting to discuss the matter, he maintained.

In another resolution, the councillors urged the provincial government to pay at least Rs50,000 as compensation to heirs of each of the five labourers who died a few days ago when a wall they had been working on collapsed at the Government Women Teachers Training College in Kamalia. The meeting also offered Fateha for the labourers.

The meeting also discussed a point of order moved by a member in which it was alleged that the education department had violated the merit criteria while hiring 950 teachers on contract for government schools in the district. The district Nazim assured the house that an inquiry would be conducted and stern action taken against those found responsible.

SENTENCED: District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Akram Zaki on Saturday sentenced a murderer to death.