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Zilla council shows concerns over appointments

By Zahiruddin

CHITRAL: The district nazim and all the members of zilla council Chitral were unanimous to register their utter displeasure and anguish over the allegedly illegal appointments of servants in the departments of education, health and agriculture. In its monthly session held here on Tuesday chaired by convener Sultan Shah, the recruitment process in the devolved departments were discussed in detail by the house members and alleged blatant violation of merit policy by the concerned authorities. Leveling serious allegations of bungling against the provincial government, they said that the district government was ignored. They said that members of the house were elected representatives of the district but the provincial government ignored them in all spheres of decisions which affected the public. Addressing on the occasion, the district nazim Maghfirat Shah warned the government that the district government and the members of zilla council will go to any extent to register their protest and to make their importance and significance felt. “I do not shrink from staging a sit-in against the provincial government for seizing and capturing the authorities of the district government”, the enraged nazim said. He said that the executive officers of the devolved departments seek directions from the provincial government bypassing totally the district government. He said that on the behest of the provincial government, the outgoing EDO of education Samad Gul created a new record of merit violations. He demanded of the government to cancel the appointments in the departments of education, health and agriculture. Through a resolution moved by Sohrab Khan of Sheshi Koh union council, the house demanded of the government to initiate inquiry against the works and services department for the alleged substandard construction of road for the Sheshi Koh valley at a cost of 25 million rupees.
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TMA Drives against illegal Bus stands

By Zahiruddin

CHITRAL: Tehsil municipal administration (TMA) Chitral has launched a drive against the illegal bus stands in the city which caused public nuisance and created disturbance for the smooth flow of vehicular traffic, tehsil nazim Sartaj Ahmed Khan while talking to chitraltimes.com. He said that a spacious bus stand has been established with all necessary and modern facilities for the commuters and no one will be allowed to run bus stands in various corners of the city. Mr. Khan said that the with the rapidly expansion of the city settlements, the traffic problems had assumed a new and challenging form for the people but the TMA has solved a good number of them despite its limited resources and financial crisis.