LAKKI MARWAT – Deputy Commissioner Nisar Ahmad has called upon the secretaries of union councils and area elders to play their role for enabling the Health Department and other stakeholders to wipe out the menace of polio from the district.
This he said while speaking at a meeting in the District Council Hall Tajazai on Saturday.
Among others, Assistant Commissioner Abdul Shakoor Dawar, DDHO Dr Abdul Rehman, Polio Eradication Officer Dr Adnan Akbar Khan, WHO representative Dr Illauddin and EPI coordinator Dr Hafeezullah were also present on the occasion.
Nisar said that union councils’ secretaries should extend a helping hand towards polio teams in their respective areas in order to achieve the immunization of targeted population successfully.
“The elders should use their influence to wash out misconceptions about the oral polio vaccine from the minds of people and ensure coverage of refusal cases”, he maintained. 
He told that the administration and law enforcement agencies with the help of area elders would provide foolproof security to polio teams. He underlined the need for concerted efforts to eradicate the crimpling disease from the district forever.
Teachers form body for rights protection
Meanwhile, teachers belonging to Lakki city formed a committee to protect their rights of appointment as head teachers in the primary schools of urban locality after being promoted to BPS-15 under up gradation and promotion policy.
The committee was formed at a meeting held in government primary school No.1, Lakki Meenakhel on Saturday. Javedur Rehman, Samargul, Inayatur Rehman, Khan Momin, Haji Ghulam Akbar, Haji Najibullah Khan and Syed Ameer Badshah were nominated as members of the committee.
The participants assigned the committee the task to hold meetings with local officials of Elementary and Secondary Education Department and discuss with them the problems of teachers of urban areas.
They said that the committee members would apprise the officials about the concerns and apprehensions of teachers in case they (officials) posted non-local headmasters in the primary schools of Lakki city.