MITHI, April 28: The District Council of Tharparkar on Thursday adopted resolutions asking the government to take steps to ensure transparent distribution of subsidized wheat among Tharis, reactivate the “Tawana Pakistan Programme”, accord approval to the revised CCB schemes for phase-II, sanction water supply projects for villages where water of the wells contained arsenic.

Moving the resolution, council member Abdul Latif Rahoomo, Abdul Rahim Khoso and Tikam Kolhi pointed out that a large number of drought-hit families belonging to various villages had been deprived of wheat owing to unfair distribution, particularly in the villages of Dindario, Hirar Detha, Nathe Ji Dhani and Laloo Jo Taar.

Giving the ruling, Convenor Ramsingh Sodho urged the DCO, Tharparkar, to take notice of public complaints and report to the council regarding it.

In another resolution, member Abdul Rahim Khoso said that a number of CCB schemes in Thar were supposed to be completed but were not as they required more funds. Hence, they should be revised for phase-II. The council passed resolutions urging revision of such schemes.

Through yet another identical motion, a lady councillor pointed out that the “Tawana Pakistan Programme” seems suspended in some areas of the district. The council demanded that it be implemented properly.

Another lady councillor, Tara Bai, said as the Nadra office in Mithi was situated out of town, everyone had to hire a rickshaw to go there and women had to wait for hours under the sweltering heat to get Computerized National Identity Cards, hence the said office be established at a central location in town to facilitate the public, especially women.

Giving the ruling, the convenor directed the EDO (revenue) to explore the possibility of shifting the Nadra office to an appropriate location.—BoC