TIMERGARA, April 1: Senior provincial minister Sirajul Haq said on Tuesday that work on laying 11,000kv transmission line for Jandool sub-division in Dir Lower was in progress and would be completed by the end of this month.

Talking to various delegations, which called on him at tehsil Nazim Samarbagh office here, the minister said the transmission line, being laid at a cost of Rs10 million, would bring to an end long-hours loadshedding and frequent power failures.

He said most of the public complaints he had received were about Wapda which had been taken up with authorities concerned for redress.

The provincial minister said a team of Wapda officials would visit the tehsil during the next week to apprise themselves of the hardships and grievances of the power utility consumers and to take remedial measures.

He said the MMA government believed in selfless service to the masses and would honour all its commitments and promises it made with them during the election campaign by making best use of the available resources.

The minister assured the delegations that all the villages would be provided electricity during the current year and also issued on the spot directives on some of the applications for redressing the public complaints.

Earlier, the delegations apprised the minister about the problems being faced by them and thanked him for expressing keen interest in the resolution of the same.

Among others, tehsil Nazim Samarbagh Qazi Hussain Ahmad, convener tehsil council Mohammad Abdullah, Nazim union council Kambat Saeed Ahmad, Nazim union council Samarbagh Abdur Rehman advocate, Nazim union council Sadbar Killi Aminullah Khan and district heads of various government departments were present on the occasion.