TOBA TEK SINGH, May 29: Governor Khalid Maqbool has announced that Wapda would provide electricity to even a very small village — having just 10 houses. Within one year, every village and locality would be supplied filtered drinking water, he maintained.
He was addressing a gathering at the district council lawns on Monday after an open court.
He said recently Wapda spent Rs2.2 billion on upgradation of Toba and Pirmahal grid stations while 1877 villages were being electrified. A forest park was also being set up in the district at a cost of Rs20 million while district government has recently decided to allot 60 acres of land for the construction of building of campus of Faisalabad Agriculture University.
He appreciated the working of Nadra and said it had already issued national identity cards to 75 per cent people of Toba district. However, he would talk to the officials to set up three more centers at Kamalia, Gojra and Pirmahal.
Meanwhile, a union council nazim told the governor at the open court that three bridges on Trimmu and Sidhnai canal have been broken for the last 10 years as a result of which people have to travel 20 miles extra. The governor directed the officials concerned to construct the bridges within three months.
A citizen complained that Muhammad Amin, the uncle of former district nazim Chaudhry Ashfaq, had drwan loan from a bank and he was his guarantor. The banking court was forcing him to pay the loan instead of pressing the loanee.
MNA Farhan Latif (nephew of Chaudhry Ashfaq) announced that if the claim of complainant was correct, he would repay the loan.
Another Kamalia villager complained that a former circle registrar of cooperative society and former MNA Asadur Rehman drew thousands of rupees in the names of farmers who were being harassed by the authorities.
Some women hepatitis patients complained that their treatment was started with Rs39,000 provided by the Pakistan Baitul Maal. Now each patient further required injections worth Rs22,000 but they have been refused. The governor assured them that the Baitul Maal department would bear all expenses of their treatment.
On the demand of a citizen, he also promised that he would talk to the railway minister to introduce a new train between Faisalabad and Shorkot Cantonment as there was no train for one million population of villages between Gojra and Shorkot.