LAKKI MARWAT, May 5: The Mutahidda Mahaz Asateza here has expressed concern over shortage of free textbooks in government schools, saying that the students had not received complete sets of textbooks even four weeks after start of the new academic year.

Talking to this correspondent, Mutahidda Mahaz Asateza, Lakki Marwat, chairman Maulana Tameezuddin said on Saturday that the authorities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board had so far been unable to provide free books to all students in the province. He said that students of secondary classes had not been provided complete sets of books, which was affecting teaching and learning activities in government schools. He demanded of the government to order the quarters concerned for making swift arrangements for supply of textbooks to all students.

CADET COLLEGE: The residents of Darra Tang union council have appealed to the government not to shift the cadet college project from Mouza Mahal Panyala to some other place in the district.

A group of the area residents told this correspondent here on Saturday that shifting of the collage project to other locality was not in the interest of the residents of several villages, as 1,000 kanal free of cost land had been provided for it in Mahal Panyala.

“The land was transferred to the education department in 2008 and former senator Salim Saifullah Khan had also laid the foundation of the project,” they said, adding that now the college project was being shifted to another site on political basis. The residents said that they had also moved a local court to stop shifting of the college project from Mahal Panyala.

PENSIONERS DEMAND: A meeting of retired officers association here on Saturday demanded of the government to announce cent per cent increase in the pension of retired government employees besides raising their medical and other allowances in the upcoming budget.

Haji Zarwali Khan, who chaired the meeting, later said that most of the retired employees were living a miserable life with a meagre monthly pension. He said that the government should do something to solve their problems.