BAHAWALPUR: A division bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) accepting an intra-court appeal (ICA) announced the decision to regularise the teaching and non-teaching staff of Pakistan Railways two schools of pre-Partition period at Sammasatta.

The temporary employees had filed their appeal against the decision of LHC single bench.

The railway administration had been running a boys high school and a girls school after partition in the vast historicbuildings since the railway was introduced during colonial era over a century ago at Sammasatta. At that time, Sammasatta was an important railway junction on the premier New DelhiBhatindha-Karachi railway line of subcontinent. The then Sammsatta junction was thickly populated with the railways` employees. The Raj had established two separate schools for boys and girls for the employees` children. In previous years, the railway decided to close down the two institutions leaving their teaching and non-teaching employees unpaid.

The staff had filed a writ petition which was turned down by a single bench.According to petitioners` lawyers, LHC`s division bench comprising Justice Shujaat Ali and Justice Ahmed Nadeem Arshad has ordered to regularise the temporary staff members (of teaching and non-teaching categories) from the date oftheirjoiningin 2006.

GASTROENTERITIS: As many as 96 people, mostly children and women, on Thursdaylandedinlocalhospitals after the attack ofgastroenteritis.

According to doctors, patients suffered due to overeating.

As per emergency wards` reports, 73 and 23 people were on Thursday admitted to Government Sir Sadiq Hospitaland Bahawal Victoria Hospital (BVH), respectively. Doctors have advised the general public to be careful about eating especially during Ramazan.

SAFETY WIRE: The Bahawalpur and Vehari police have launched the distribution of free of cost safety wires among motorcyclists for their protection against kite string.

According to PROs Umer Saleem and Adnan Tariq, traffic wardens at different chowks and important junctions in both cities distributed safety wires among several motorcyclists who were also advised o use helmets during their journey.