115 more arazi centres to be set up

LAHORE :The Punjab government will set up 115 arazi centres in different districts of the province by the end of the current year to facilitate the general public at their doorstep.

The arazi centres will provide revenue related facilities to the general public in an efficient and transparent manner.

This was stated by Provincial Minister for Revenue Malik Muhammad Anwar while talking to different delegations at his office on Friday.

The minister said that 153 arazi record centres were already providing different facilities to the people in 36 districts of the province.

He said the Board of Revenue was going to procure 20 state-of-the-art mobile vans so that revenue-related facilities could be provided to the people close to their residence.

The BOR has also taken steps to facilitate the rural population and computer technology has been utilised to facilitate the people.

The PTI led government has given special attention to ensuring complete transparency in revenue matters to save public properties from land grabbers, the minister concluded.

Magistrates: A spokesman for the Provincial Industries and Trade Department has the price control magistrates are conducing raids to check the price of essential commodities across the province.

The spokesman stated the price control magistrates conducted raids on 10,350 shops.

As many as 1,952 complaints relating to price-hike were lodged and 189 cases were registered in which 179 persons were arrested and fines amounting to more than Rs3.5 million were also imposed.

PhDs awarded: Punjab University (PU) has awarded PhD degrees to five scholars.

Ambreen Gul, daughter of Mirza Sultan Ahmed, has been awarded PhD in Molecular Biology after approval of her thesis entitled “Overexpression of Aspartic Acid in Cotton Against Insects,” Ammara Ahad, d/o Abdul Ahad Khan, in Molecular Biology after approval of her thesis entitled “Expression of Flavonoid Pigment Related Genes in Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum), Khadija Aaliya, d/o Asif Hussain, Molecular Biology after approval of her thesis entitled “Transformation and Expression Studies of Multiple Frost Tolerant Genes in Solanum Tuberosum L,” Mehvish Ajaz, d/o Soofi Ajaz Ahmed, in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics after approval of her thesis entitled “Azo Dyes Removal by Bacteria Isolated from Industrial Wastewater” and Naveed Ahmad Noor, son of Muhammad Nawaz, in the subject of High Energy Physics after approval of his thesis entitled “Under Pressure Study of Fundamental Properties of Perovskite Oxides Using Density Functional Theory (DFT).”