SHANGLA: Chairmen of village councils have demanded of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to ensure early appointment of the candidates, who had passed the written and physical tests held in 2022 for the posts of forest guards.

They made the demand during a meeting with the forest department officials here on Friday.

The LG members were led by Ali Bash Khan, chairman of Basi village council, and Abbas Khan, Damorai village council chairman.

Some of candidates, who passed the physical and written tests for the forest guard posts in 2022, were also present.

After the meeting, Ali Bash told reporters that the forest officials assured them that interviews of the successful candidates would be conducted soon.

He said 84 candidates had cleared the written and physical tests against 42 vacant posts advertised by the Shangla forest department in 2022, but the department was using delaying tactics in recruit-ing the candidates, which was an injustice with the poor youth.

Mr Bash said the candidates were aging and they would not be able to get a job if their appointment was further delayed.

The Basi VC chairman threatened that if the recruitments were not made they would stage a sitin outside the forest department office.

ROAD CLEARED:The tehsil administration on Friday claimed to have cleared the DandaiChakesar Road after landslides triggered by a heavy downpour blocked it on Thursday.

Chakesar assistant commissioner Mohammad Hamid Siddiqui said the road, which connects the tehsil with the Karakoram Highway at Dandai, had been cleared to traffic after removing debris from it.

Meanwhile, AC Hamid Siddiqui and tehsil chairman Bakht Alam Khan on Friday inaugurated a monsoon tree plantation drive in Chakesar tehsil.

Mr Alam on the occasion urged the people to plant more and more trees in their respective villages to cope with the climate change issue.