JHANG The City

Billboards a security risk for schools in Jhang
From Our Correspondent
JHANG: The Punjab Highways Department and the tehsil municipal administration have failed to remove huge billboards in front of schools despite orders of the Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Livestock Ch Arshad Jatt.
Sources in the TMA told The News that a majority of advertising agencies were being run by the TMA and as a result, huge billboards in front of schools could not be removed despite the minister’s order. They said that the boundary walls of girl schools and colleges had been raised to eight feet by utilising huge public funds, but over eight-foot iron polls having stairs made the activity useless and provided easy entry to intruders.
They disclosed that the officials posted in different branches of the TMA had succeeded in getting approved the display of billboards at the TMA building and along city roads. They said that Jhang-Gojra Road was the PHD property, but no one objected to the display of billboards along it. “During his visit a couple of days ago, Arshad Jatt visited the girls college and school and directed Assistant Commissioner Imran Asmat to immediately remove the billboards from the boundary walls of female educational institutions declared most sensitive by law-enforcement agencies,” they said.
Despite this correspondent’s repeated attempts, PHD XEN Sohail Akram and TMO Ahmad Khan could not be contacted for version.