BAHAWALPUR, Aug 5: The Integrated Post-Management (IPM) monitoring programme will be introduced to boost cotton production within next three years in all the districts of the province.
This was stated by Adviser to Punjab Chief Minister and National Programme for Water Management Coordinator Jahangir Khan Tareen while inspecting field farms school along with Punjab agriculture secretary Capt Arif Nadeem (retired) at Chak 13-BC near here on Thursday.
The adviser expressed the view that with the introduction of the IMP in other districts, the cotton crop could be protected from virus attacks which would help increase its production.
It may be mentioned that presently the IPM programme is being carried out in only four districts - Bahawalpur, Lodhran, Dera Ghazi Khan and Vehari. About 40 farm field schools, 10 in each district, have been opened in all the four districts for imparting training to the farmers to repulse the virus attack on cotton crop.
According to a press release, the trainee cultivators of the school informed Mr Tareen and Mr Nadeem that they were properly looking after their cotton crop with the pest management monitoring programme.
AUCTION: The remaining royal buggies of the late Amir of Bahawalpur Sadiq Muhammad Khan Abbasi and other scrap material will be auctioned within the legal heirs and their descendants at Sadiq Garh Palace on Aug 9.
It was learnt that powers to auction the remaining articles of the late Nawab were delegated to Ahmedpur East DDO (R) Ghazi Amanullah Khan by sub-committee chairman Abdul Ghafoor Bhatti, now Punjab's BoR Colony secretary in Lahore.
About 15 outdated buggies piled up in Bahawalpur will also be auctioned with royal family members on a date to be notified soon. The distribution process of movable and immovable property of the late Nawab within his 23 legal heirs is presently in progress here.
Distribution committee chairman Justice Qadeer Ahmed Chaudhry (retired) is due here on Aug 15 to review the progress in this respect as the distribution work will have to be completed within six months.
MURDER CASE: Sadar police on Thursday registered a murder case against eight persons for allegedly torturing to death an alleged thief here on Wednesday. DPO Arif Nawaz said that city's Union Council No 14 Nazim Muhammad Safdar was among six of the accused arrested so far. He denied that some of the policemen of Baghdad police station were involved in the torture of Rao Allah Noor.
He claimed that Noor had been brought to the police station in serious condition as some of the people nominated in the FIR had tortured him severely. He said the alleged thief died due to severe thrashing of the people.