GUJRANWALA, Jan 28: The Gujranwala Electric Power Company (Gepco) has removed the disparity between domestic connection charges in urban and rural areas.
Gepco chief executive Brig Saifullah Khalid made the announcement at an open forum in Wapda’s Pasrur division on Tuesday and directed the Wapda officials to implement the new system in letter and spirit.
He warned that inefficient and corrupt Gepco officials would be taken to task if they failed to improve their efficiency.
He said recruitment in Gepco would be made on merit, as quota system had been abolished.
He listened to employees’ problems and issued orders for their redressal.
GAS-CUTS: The local chamber of commerce and industry has expressed its resentment over government’s failure to protect Sui Gas pipelines and demanded that supply of gas to industrial and commercial units should be restored forthwith.
At a meeting held here on Tuesday under the chairmanship of chamber president Khwaja Tahir Hassan, the participants expressed concern over the suspension of gas supply twice within a week and demanded that tight security measures should be adopted for the safety of gas pipelines in Balochistan and elders of the two tribes taken into confidence in this regard.
They said that many orders had been cancelled due to delays in the supply of products and hundreds of employees rendered jobless in the wake of suspension of gas supply.
TMA’s ACHIEVEMENT: The convener for Tehsil council’s works committee, Mohammad Hamza Butt, claimed at a meeting here that uplift projects worth Rs180 million had been completed in last two years, which was a record in Punjab.
SHOT DEAD: A man was shot dead by his rivals on district court premises.
Sources said the deceased, Zulfikar, had an enmity with Ehsan Munshi and Azeem Cheema in Kasowal and three persons of his group, Tariq Mahmood, Mohammad Arshad and Mohammad Nawaz, had already been killed by rivals.
The deceased and his three brothers, Azam, Jamal and Sharafat, were on bail in a kidnapping-for-ransom case of Sitra Sialkot. The interim bail had been granted by a local anti-terrorism court. The deceased had come to the district court in this connection and was on his way to the chamber of his counsel. Near the court of an assistant commissioner, a man who had been following him opened fire on him.
He was taken to the DHQ hospital in critical condition where he breathed his last.
The accused tried to escape but was over-powered by traffic police constable Zafar Butt and some other passers-by and handed over to the civil lines police, who recovered a 30-bore pistol from his possession and registered a murder case against him.
25 HELD: Ghakkar police raided a cinema and caught 25 people who were allegedly watching x-rated movies there. The cinema owner and operator were among those arrested.