Body to probe complaints against private loan business From Our Correspondent TOBA TEK SINGH: Kamalia DSP Malik Usman on Sunday formed a committee to probe complaints against a gang involved in giving loans to the poor on high markup. On Saturday, scores of activists of the Labour Qaumi Movement, the Carpet Weavers Union, the Powerloom Workers Union and the Brick Kiln Workers Association staged a sit-in for four hours outside the Kamalia press club against the private loan business by a gang. A number of affectees said that they were forced to obtain loans due to their poor financial condition from the gang. They claimed that they had returned much more than the actual loan amount but even then the gang members were forcing them to pay further interest money. They said that they had given applications to Kamalia City, Sadr and Jakhar police for registration of cases against the accused but police were allegedly not taking action against them. Meanwhile, the DSP held talks with the protesters and assured them of taking action against the accused. Injured nursing student dies From Our Correspondent TOBA TEK SINGH: A first year student of the Government Nursing School, Gojra, who was found injured mysteriously, died at the THQ Hospital on Saturday night. Aalia Firdous’ parents said that she had gone to the school some days ago and later found unconscious near Toba-Gojra Bypass with wounds on her body. After receiving information, police shifted Aalia to the hospital where she died. Waterlogging due to non-bricklining of Trimmu-Sidhnai Link Canal Farmers of three dists block road for three hours Two MPAs meet protesters, say red-tapism in bureaucracy hurdle to project From Our Correspondent TOBA TEK SINGH: Hundreds of farmers belonging to Toba Tek Singh, Jhang and Khanewal districts staged a demonstration to press their demand here on Sunday. The protesting farmers also blocked Shorkot-Toba Road for three hours. They were demanding bricklining of Trimmu-Sidhnai Link Canal to save their land from waterlogging. Addressing the protesters, Pirmahal Farmers Association president Shafqat Rasool, lumberdars Afzal Tahir and Mehr Sarang Ali, Awami Workers Party Toba district president Muhammad Zubair, Kissan Ittehad president Muhammad Sarwar, Haji Rustam and Chaudhry Naseer said that waterlogging due to non-bricklining of the canal had destroyed hundreds of acres. They said that the CM had also promised to brickline the canal, which was yet to be fulfilled. They said that the farmers had sown rice but the crop ruined as saline water was flowing through their fields and they were unable to harvest it. They claimed that when a delegation of farmers of the three districts met the Punjab Irrigation secretary in October, he promised that water supply would be kept less than 4,000 cusec in the canal but now water flow was more than 12,000 cusec. Meanwhile, PML-N MPAs Chaudhry Khalid Ghani and Mian Muhammad Rafiq reached the spot and assured them of raising the issue in the Punjab Assembly. They said that Rs 2 billion had already been allocated in the current fiscal year’s annual development programme on the order of the CM but red-tapism in bureaucracy was a hurdle in starting the bricklining work. They said that they would meet the CM and told him about destruction of hundreds of acres in the three districts due to waterlogging. They would also request him to order the officials concerned to start bricklining of the canal at the earliest.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 04:39:33 +0000
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