FAISALABAD, Jan 6: Thousands of elementary teachers have not received their last two-month salary in the Punjab, says the teachers’ union

“This is due to mismanagement and criminal neglect of Education department functionaries,” Punjab Primary Teachers Association information secretary Muhammad Bashir Sanober told newsmen on Sunday.

Due to a “tussle” between the recently established local governments and the director, Public Instruction, Schools (Secondary), Punjab, he said, the entire system of distribution of salary and other emoluments had come to a halt.

According to him, the powers of the deputy district officer (elementary) had not so far been delegated to any officer or elected representative.

Sanober said there were 60 male and 49 female schools in the district where the posts of headmasters and headmistresses were lying vacant.

He alleged that some high ups of the Education department were out to fail the new system under the devolution of power plan.

Desiltation: District Nazim Chaudhry Zahid Nazeer has warned of stern action in water theft cases.

“Field staff will also be taken to task,” he told a gathering in Chak 113/G-B after opening the desilting campaign in Faisalabad district.

He asked irrigation officials present on the occasion to ensure that all water outlets were not more than the sanctioned diameter.

Earlier, Faisalabad Irrigation chief engineer Muhammad Anwar Khan informed the district nazim that over 688 miles long channels would be desilted in the Faisalabad Zone during the current campaign.