Painting Sialkot city black

Published August 10, 2006

SIALKOT, Aug 9: Some unidentified people (or group) have besmeared almost all the hoardings and billboards displaying the pictures of female models in the city.

These advertisement boards have been installed at various places — both spacious and congested — which include Allama Iqbal Chowk, Rangpura Chowk, Daska-Hajipura, Paris, Shahabpura, Circular, Kashmir and Small Industrial Estate roads.

The publicity boards have been blackened leaving many an advertising agency in jeopardy.

VACCINATION: The Punjab Employees Social Security Institution has chalked out a comprehensive plan to ensure early anti-hepatitis vaccination of all the industrial workers, labourers and their dependents. The factory owners in the Punjab are collaborating the project.

PESSI commissioner Syed Tahir Raza Naqvi told newsmen on Wednesday that more than 1,000 industrial workers had been suffering from hepatitis and registered with the PESSI.

He announced computerisation of the system and networking of all the social security hospitals, mini-hospitals and dispensaries to improve the medication service to all the secured and registered labourers, industrial workers and their dependents.

The project would be completed within next two months at a cost of Rs20 million, he said, adding it would help improve the PESSI performance and maintain the data about the workers.

He directed the officials concerned to hire the required staff at the recently-established Social Security Directorate in Sialkot within next two months. He expressed concern over the slow pace of construction of 100-bed social security hospital and directed the contractor to make efforts for the early completion of this Rs120 million project.

A committee, comprising SCCI senior members, was constituted to look after the affairs of the hospital.

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