GUJRANWALA: The education department forwarded a summary to the Punjab government on Thursday for reconstruction of rundown buildings of 33 public schools in the district, terming them `death traps` for students.

The heads of these public schools had informed the department about the deteriorating condition of the buildings, suggesting that they should be reconstructed.

The education department did a survey of all school buildings and found 33 of them in a bad condition in Saddar, Kamoki, Naushera Virkan and Wazirabad tehsils. It forwarded a summary to the Punjab government, demanding that the buildings of allthe rundown schools should be demolished and reconstructed before monsoon.

The department also sought the estimate of expenditures for demolishing and reconstructing buildings.

Meanwhile, the Punjab government sought a report from the district education officers about enrolment of students in primary schools.

ACCIDENT: A truck overturned near Kot Shahan Vegetable Market on GT Road, causing a traffic jam that lasted for two hours.

National Highway and Motorway Police officers reached the spot and removed the truck from the road with the help of a crane to restore traf fic.

The commuters had to face a great deal of inconvenience.

MAYOR: The private persons deployed by Municipal Corporationbuilding inspectors for tax recovery would be arrested as they are not entitled to do the job.

This was stated by Mayor Sheikh Sarwat Ikram while speaking at a meeting of chairmen of 73 union councils at his of fice on Thursday.

On complaint that building inspectors had deployed their own private persons for tax recovery and they were extorting Rs10,000 from underconstruction building owners to allow them to continue construction without approved maps, the mayor gave orders for the arrest of all such private persons.

He assigned the task of tax recovery of domestic and commercial buildings to the chairmen and promised that 75pc of tax recovery would be spent on development projects of the union councils.