HARIPUR, Jan 16: Haripur District Nazim Dr Raja Aamir Zaman has announced Rs8.4 millions grant for required furniture, laboratory equipment and other items to various government schools of the district.

He also asked high ups of the district education department for ensuring early delivery of required material to the institutions.

The Nazim was addressing at the opening ceremony of a improvement project of the Basic Health Units (BHUs) Beer, some 30km from here. The function was arranged by the village-based Beer Development Society.

He said, though the district had plenty of financial resources, the people of remote areas had been deliberately deprived of their due rights by the so-called public representatives in the past. Schools remained short of furniture, labs and other necessities; hospitals short of staff and medicines, but none of the elected people cared about the public, he said.

Mr Zaman,a doctor himself, took strong exception of the complaints of non-availability of medicines in the BHUs and asked the health department to provide necessary drugs in all the units of the district.

He also announced Rs2.0 millions for the uplift of Beer Union Council and establishment of a handicrafts training centre for women.  

The Nazim told the participants that President Gen Pervez Musharraf had assured him of completion of all the pending electrification schemes besides approving the new ones on the recommendation of the district government

Efforts were on to obtain financial help from the provincial high way authority for rehabilitation and widening of Chappar Road, he said. A sum of Rs1.7 millions had already been earmarked for construction of a road from Pakki Masjid to Village Hill.

Nazim also announced the upgradation of middle school for girls to the high level and primary schools for girls— Nilor and Kachi— to the middle standard.

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