SIALKOT, June 23: The Sialkot District Council on Monday unanimously approved a surplus budget of Rs2.64 billion for the financial year 2003-04.
Giving details, District Nazim Mian Naeem Javaid told the house that the district government had allocated Rs560 million for development projects. The expenditures had been estimated at Rs1.85 billion.
He said Rs1.31 billion had been allocated for the promotion of education which was 71 per cent of the budget. Similarly, he said that Rs255 million had been earmarked for health, Rs24.7 million for agriculture, Rs57.9 million for communication, Rs2 million for scholarships of deserving students, Rs21 million for the buildings of all THQs, DHQ Hospitals and schools, Rs46 million for the repair of 120 kilometre long roads in the district and Rs150 million for UC Nazims, women and minority councillors.
The District Nazim said that Rs111.9 million had been set aside for the completion of farm-to-market roads, Rs95 million for the provision of modern educational facilities, Rs4.7 million for women welfare, Rs5 million for livestock and Rs1.1 million for forests, orchards and parks.
The District Nazim said that this was a tax-free budget as no new tax had been levied.
killed: Illegal horse races claimed the life of a person while 11 gamblers and spectators were injured, three of them seriously, in their pursuit of galloping animals on the Daska-Sambrial Road here on Monday.
Some influential gamblers of the area organized the horse racing event from Bhopalwala to Adamkey Cheema amid heavy traffic.
Scores of people riding on motorcycles started chasing the horses on the busy road. Near the filling station, their motorcycles collided with each other and they fell on the road. In the meanwhile, the fast moving vehicles coming from behind ran them over, killing youth Irfan Bajwa of Bhopalwala instantly and injuring 11 others seriously. They were rushed to hospitals in Daska, Sambrial, Sialkot and Gujranwala. Three of them were shifted to a Lahore hospital in critical condition.
DEATH AWARDED: District and sessions judge Chaudhry Zafar Hussain on Monday handed down death sentence on two counts and fined Rs200,000 each to two convicts in a murder case.
The judge also awarded 25 years hard jail with a fine of Rs200,000 to another convict, Hafiz Faisal, in the same case.
The judge acquitted five co-accused — Shahid Chaudhry, Rafiq Khan, Iftikhar, Anwar and Tariq — by giving them the benefit of the doubt.
According to the prosecution, convicts Farooq Ghumman and Ghulam Murtaza along with Hafiz Faisal had killed student leader Shahzad alias Toni in the Government Murray College, Sialkot, in 1996.
GANGRAPE: A girl was gangraped on Monday by three influential vagabonds at gunpoint in Baamikey Kalan village, Narowal district.
Victim ‘S’ (14) was going to women vocational training centre when Jameel alias Jeela, Aamir and Heera abducted her and took her to Heera’s house where they gangraped her. After committing the crime, the outlaws threw the girl in a street in critical condition and fled.
Niddokey police have registered a case with no arrest.
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