NAROWAL: The Narowal Tehsil Administration (TMA) lacks funds to repair roads and lift garbage from streets and roads.

City roads, especially of Main Bazaar, Hajwair Colony, Abbas Nagar, Eidgah, Rasoolpura, Ganj Husainabad, Siddiquepura, Makki Masjid, Old DCO House and Allama Iqbal roads have potholes making traveling on them a bone-jarring episode.

Narowal TMO Abdul Sattar said the TMA needed about 300 sanitary workers and other resources to keep the city clean.

At the moment, the TMA has only 100 sanitary workers which are insufficient to keep the city clean. He said they had sent proposals to senior authorities for recruitment of more staff.

He added the TMA had also facing the shortage of funds to meet its requirements.

TMA Administrator Tariq Kareem Khokhar said the TMA would soon start repair of city roads and improve the sanitation conditions in the city as the government had provided additional Rs21.8 million funds.

District Coordination Officer Syed Najaf Iqbal said the district government would try to provide extra funds to the TMA for the repair and maintenance of city roads.

The residents of Narowal have appealed to the chief minister to take notice of the situation and provide sufficient funds and resources to the TMA for the repair and maintenance of city roads and to meet its requirements to make the city clean.

Published in Dawn, May 25th, 2015

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