Cash awards announced for grid station workers in Chitral

Chitral Tehsil Nazim Sartaj Ahmed Khan extolled the workers of grid stations organisation of Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) in Chitral for their relentless efforts at the very peril of their lives to reconnect the district with the national grid by repairing the transmission lines in Lowari Top.

Talking to media in Chitral on Wednesday, he announced a cash prize of ten thousand rupees for the workers in recognition of their hard work as a result of which electric supply was restored to Chitral district after sixteen days.

Sartaj Ahmed said more than twenty five feet of snow had accumulated in the Lowari Top and it was not an easy job to work on such a place where one faces the danger of avalanche every moment. He admired the workers by saying that they prepared themselves to offer sacrifice to restore electric supply to Chitral.

The nazim demanded of the Wapda high ups to provide its GSO office with a vehicle in Chitral without which they face difficulties to reinstate the lines. He also demanded to regularise the services of all the staff who were working on contract basis for the last five years.--Zahiruddin