LANDI KOTA: The reconstruction and widening of the two and a half kilometres road passing through the main Bara Bazaar was started on Tuesday after the administration agreed to form a committee to ascertain financial losses incurred by local traders during the last six years of insurgency in the area.
Officials said that reconstruction of the road was part of the master plan they had devised to rehabilitate and reopen the historic Bara Bazaar after six years of continuous closure.
They said that the main road from Bara Qadeem to Kareegarh Garhai would be widened to 96 feet. They said that over 200 shops built along the roadside would be demolished and compensation would be paid to the affected shopkeepers.
The road reconstruction was started after the political administration held a series of parlays with the elders of Sipah tribe and Bara Traders Union. The land on which the Bara Bazaar has been set up belongs to Sipah tribe.
The administration wants the Sipah elders to ensure the security of the bazaar under the Collective Territorial Responsibility clause of FCR.
ABSENT FROM DUTY: The principal of a government school and three health workers were found absent from their duties when officials of the political administration conducted surprise raids on a school and two health centres in Jamrud.
Officials said that the raids were conducted after they received repeated complaints from the residents of Ali Masjid and Chora area that principal of government high school in Chora had been absent from his official duty for over a month while malaria supervisor in Lala China health unit and two dispensers including a female were not performing their duty regularly.
They said that a charge sheet had been prepared against the absent government employees and sent to political agent with recommendations for disciplinary action against them.
Meanwhile, the residents of Ragha village in Kam Shalman have demanded of the Fata Directorate of Education to provide female staff to the local primary school for girls which had been closed since 2012 owing to lack of teachers. Correspondent
