TOBA TEK SINGH: Two persons were killed in a wall collapse incident on Rajana Road on Thursday.

According to Rescue 1122, both the deceased Rana Arslan of Chak 183-GB, Miankot, and Waqar of Faisalabad, employees of an advertisement company of Faisalabad, were installing a billboard on the roof of a shop. They were standing on a wall which fell on iron shade oftheshopandthenontheroad.

Both Arslan and Waqar were buried under the debris of the wall after falling down. They were critically injured and were shifted to DHQ Hospital where they succumbed to wounds.

BONDED LABOUR: Speakers at a seminar held on the topic of eradication of bonded labour demanded the government take action against the brick kiln owners who were using workers and their families as bonded labour.

The speakers included Labour Qaumi Movement district president Muhammad Shabbir, Bonded Labour Liberation Front leader Muhammad Shahbaz and District Health Of ficer Dr Khalid Mirza.

They said that in the name of so-called advance payments, the workers were forced to work on kilns withoutany facilities. The social security cards were not being issued to the workers in the district while kiln owners were violating government`s notification under which they were bound to pay wages of Rs742 per 1,000 bricks to their workers, they added.

SCHOOLS: EDO Education Babar Mukhtar says that during the current year, 94,000 children of school-going age were enrolled in public primary schools of the district.

He said the Punjab government, over this achievement, had released a special development grant of Rs842 million to the department. He said Rs10,000 special allowance would be awarded to assistant education officers whose performance would be found extraordinary better regarding new enrollment of children in the schools.

SUGARCANE: The Kamalia Sugar Mills management has started issuing cheques of payment to cane growers against supply of sugarcane of the last crushing season.

Hundreds of farmers had staged a sit-in on Wednesday for four hours outside the mill to protest non-payment of dues. Talks were held and an agreement was signed between the mill of ficials and the protesters under which the mill was to start issuing payment cheques to the growers on Thursday.