LAKKI MARWAT, Sept 7: People especially traders community suffered losses after heavy rains played havoc in Naurang, Serai Gambila and other localities of the district on Friday.

The downpour started in the morning and continued for several hours without any break turning the streets and roads in Naurang city into pools. Rainwater accumulated in bazaars and destroyed goods in shops and business outlets. Shopkeepers and residents remained busy the whole day pouring out water from their shops and houses.

Residents of low lying areas on the outskirts of Naurang town also faced hardships to excrete rainwater from their houses. The rain also damaged graves in the local graveyard and caused flood in rainy water courses and nullahs in different parts of the district.

Boundary walls and roofs of houses reportedly collapsed in several areas; however no loss of human life was reported. In Serai Gambila the rain paralysed routine activities as residents stuck in their houses and could not go to workplaces.

Residents of the areas demanded of the local administration to compensate them for the losses.

TEACHERS’ DEMAND: The district chapter of physical education teachers association has demanded of the provincial government to award BPS-16 to PE teachers and abolish the one-third promotion condition in the recently approved promotion and upgradation policy of the teachers.

The demand came at a meeting held at Government High School No 2, Lakki on Friday. The association’s president Haji Naimatullah Khan Meenakhel chaired the meeting which was also attended by other office-bearers and teachers.

Haji Naimatullah said physical education teachers had been waiting for upgradation to BPS-16 on the basis of having qualification of SDPE for last 15 years. He regretted that the education department ignored the longstanding demand of PETs in the formulation of new promotion and upgradation policy.