Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Hot News (14th July)

CHAKWAL JULY, 14.                     District Assembly of Chakwal on Monday unanimously approved the annual budget of the year 2003-04 and the budget session was presided over by the Naib Nazim District Chakwal Malik Naeem Tariq.  The budget was presented by convener  finance committee Syed Maqbool Hussain Shah and he told the house that the annual income for the year is expected to be 1 billion and 590 millions rupees and one billion will be non-expenditure and salaries of the different Government Departments employees are also included in it.  Rupees 240 millions will be available for the development projects while the District Government in the annual budget proposed more than rupees 410 millions development schemes for the year and the remaining funds will be collected from Prime Minister of Pakistan and Chief Minister Punjab as they had promised and assured to District Nazim during their meeting with District Nazim Sardar Ghulam Abbas.  The convener further told the house that rupees 54 millions is allocated for rural electrification while rupees 110 millions will be provided to citizen community board, 69 millions for repairing and construction of roads while rupees 60 millions is allocated for repair and construction of new Government buildings.  Rupees 13 millions for Sui Gas while rupees two lacs for the grants of Chakwal Press Club and besides this the boundary wall of Chakwal Press Club will be constructed.  The speakers who spoke on this occasion included leader of the opposition Major ® Abrar Hussain Shah, Malik Muhammad Aslam, Raja Ghulam Abbas, Pir Nisar Qasim, Malik Feroz Khan, Malik Lal Khan, Raja Ejaz Ahmad, Colonel Muhammad Younas, Ch: Khan Bahadar, Rehana Babar Salim, Iffat Yasmin, Zaib-un-Nisa and Farzana Imtiaz.  The speaker termed the budget balance and especially the members of the opposition showed great satisfaction as District Nazim Chakwal assured them that their development schemes will be included in the budget.  The resolution for the approval of budget was endorsed fully by all the members present in the house and it is interesting that this is the first budget that is approved unanimously, otherwise the previous two budgets, the opposition boycotted the proceeding and staged walkout. 
 
CHAKWAL JULY, 14.                     Three people including a young married woman were killed in three different incidents.  Un identified people murdered a 21 years old Shazia Begum at Village Dingi Bala in the area of Nila Police Station, the deceased had a soar relation with her husband, however the killer were not identified yet Nila Police registered a case.  In the second incident a fourteen years old young boy Faheem Hassan S/O Bahadar Khan resident of Village Bhoun was drowned in Assouj Nullah.  He went for a bath but unfortunately went into deep water and was drowned.  In the 3rd incident at Village Sidhandi in the area of Choa Saiden Shah Police Station a married young man Muhammad Khakan S/O Muhammad Ramzan got himself burnet alive.  He was jobless and had a domestic problem with his family.  He sprinkled kerosene oil on his body and got lit him resulting his instant death on the spot. 
 
CHAKWAL JULY, 14.                     District Nazim Chakwal on Monday suddenly raided District Headquarter Hospital Chakwal and he went straight to the patients admitted in different wards.  The patients burst against the MS and other staff of the hospital and they told vocally that they not only even checked by the doctors on duty but they were also not provided the medicine and all of the patients are purchasing medicine from outside the hospital form their own pockets.  The patients further told that the behaviors of laboratory attend and technicians are very deplorable and not medical test was entertained and the medicines and the x-ray films are to be sold out to mint the money.  District Nazim Sardar Ghulam Abbas took a serious notice of it and he directed EDO Health Mr. Akram Zahid to improve the working of District Headquarter Hospital Chakwal forthwith.  District Nazim further observed that the cleanliness was unhygienic and he put all the responsibility to the Medical Superintendent District Headquarter Hospital Chakwal and warned him to improve the situation as District Government had provided medicines amounting billions of rupees to District Headquarter Hospital Chakwal and it is petty that the patients are not to be benefited from it. 

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