HARIPUR, Jan 8: All those members of the district council, who fail to turn up to the council session for three consecutive days will stand disqualified under the Local Bodies Ordinance 2000.
This was announced by the convener of the Haripur district council, Riaz Khan Jadoon, while chairing the council session here on Monday.
The session was also attended by the district Nazim, Dr Raja Aamir Zaman.
To a call attention from a member, the district Naib Nazim stressed the need for ensuring regular attendance by all members in the sessions; and made it clear that any member who remained absent without obtaining leave would be disqualified under the Local Bodies Ordinance 2000.
He asked the members to ensure decency and respect of the house while addressing the chair as well as responding to any matter under discussion on the floor of the house.
The convener also informed the house that any resolution which was to be put before it for discussion or adoption must reach the convener 14 days earlier to the session.
Earlier, a number of issues, including payment of honoraria to the elected members on special seats, allocation of funds for them equal to the other members, were raised by the female members.
When the demand of honoraria to the special members of the district council met with stiff resistance from some of the union Nazims, the women councillors staged a walkout in protest amid hooting and shouting from both side.
However, with the intervention of some of the male members, the protesting female councillors agreed to call off their protest.
They were later supported by a majority of district councillors who, through a unanimously adopted resolution, called upon the provincial government for payment of honoraria to the female councillors. Some of the councillors demanded the presence of departmental heads of Wapda, Sui gas, PTCL and the police during the council session.
Later, the convener distributed cheques amounting to RS13.743 millions among all the 44 union Nazims of the district on account of monthly expenses of a UC during the first quarter of the current fiscal year. Each UC would receive RS310,000.
The session was later prorogued for indefinite period. Those who participated in the discussion, among others, were Eidun Nisa, Farhat Yasmin, Raheela Kausar, Hameeda Panni, Sheryar Khan, Malik Younus, Ahmad Sultan Khan, advocate, Aslam Khan Bagra and Iqbal Chohan.