SIALKOT, Nov 17: The district government has suspended from service an assistant education officer, three headmistresses, three teachers and a senior clerk for misconduct and violating recruitment rules.

District Nazim Mian Naeem Javaid told newsmen on Wednesday that action was taken after the inquiry report of a special monitoring team, headed by chairman Iftikhar Javaid Cheema.

The suspended officials included Markaz Satrah-Daska AEO Azra Parveen, government girls primary school, Kotli Kewal Ram headmistress Sabira Parveen, government primary school, Kotli Naushehra headmistress Nighat, government primary school, Mianwali headmistress Rashida Khatoon, senior clerk Mehboob Alam, PTC teachers Abida Parveen of Bangla government girls primary school, Mianwali, Sidra iqbal of Bhagatpur high school and Tahira Yasmeen of Meerakpur primary school.

The Nazim said they had been suspended for their involvement in the implementation of back-dated recruitment orders of female PTC teachers and elementary school educators in Markaz Satrah's various primary schools.

CINEMAS DEMOLISHED: Two cinemas - Tasveer Mahal and Afshan - have been demolished by the local traders after purchasing the buildings from their owners for constructing shopping plazas there.

Now there is no cinema for the people of Daska and its surrounding areas. Work on the plazas is under way nowadays. Contractors said the cinema owners were facing a financial crisis due to the cable TV network.

UPLIFT: National Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Amir Husain has said the government is making strenuous efforts for the uplift of neglected areas on priority basis. He was speaking to a gathering at Uggoki on Wednesday.

He said the government had focused on bringing the neglected areas at par with the developed areas. A large number of public welfare projects have been initiated in those areas.

The Speaker said the government has also chalked out a comprehensive plan for the early construction of link roads in 85 border area villages in Bajwat and reconstruction of main roads along with the protective dyke near River Tavi.

He said several development schemes were underway in Bajwat at a cost of Rs550 million. He said Rs10 million have been spent on provision of gas to Bajwat, Gondal and surrounding areas.

GRANT: The Punjab government has released a special grant of Rs100 million to Sialkot Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) for the provision of potable water in the city and its outskirts.

Sialkot tehsil Nazim Akmal Cheema told newsmen here on Wednesday that the underground water level was falling due to excessive pumping and less rains during the last some years.

He said the TMA would soon install water filtration plants in the city's 16 union councils, besides new tube wells and repairing of the old ones for ensuring smooth supply of water.