HARIPUR: The district administration has begun computerising the land records of Haripur in line with the provincial government’s policy.

The exercise will be completed by June next year, project manager and additional deputy commissioner Baidullah Shah told members of the Haripur Union of Journalists here on Tuesday.

Mr Shah said the administration’s relevant staff members were verifying the century old land records with the help of the relevant patwaris.

He said the record computerisation would help put the process of land transfer and collection record collection online to address bribery complaints.

The project director said the three-step verification of written and computerised land records would ensure transparency of the process.

DOMICILE FORMS: A total of 20,000 domicile forms were given away to the district education officers during a special ceremony here on Tuesday for distribution to schoolchildren.

Deputy commissioner retired Captain Nadeem Nasir said the initiative would help ninth and 10th graders get domiciles without trouble and waste of time.

He said the students would get domicile forms from own schools free of charge and fill them before submitting them to their respective school administrations, which would get them prepared and signed by the relevant assistant commissioners. The DC said the exercise would be carried out every year.

HELD: The police held a man for molesting a minor boy here on Tuesday.

SHO of the City Police Station Siddique Shah said the arrest was made on the complaint of the 11-year old from Mohallah Qadeem, who alleged that Adil had sexually assaulted him in the graveyard of Doeeyan Aabi village.

He said the child’s medical examination confirmed assault, while the police had obtained the suspect’s two days physical remand from a local court.

MAIDA SHORTAGE: An acute shortage of maida (fine wheat flour) has hit food factories of the Hattar Industrial Estate.

Factory owners told reporters on Monday that they’re left with maida stock for two days only and if supplies didn’t resume and the stock finished, they would suspend production and lay off workers totalling over 10,000.

Malik Ashiq Awan, president of the Hattar Industria-lists Association, said the maida shortage had emerged during the last fortnight when the Punjab government banned supply to KP.

He said the Hattar Industrial Estate had over 20 units that used a large quantity of maida daily to make biscuits and other confectioneries.

Mr Awan said the stock would last a day or two, so the factories faced closure, which would cause joblessness.

Published in Dawn, October 30th, 2019