Quality check: DCO orders crackdown on adulterated fertilisers, pesticides

LAHORE:

DCO Muhammad Usman said on Tuesday a crackdown would be launched on those adulterating fertilisers and pesticides.

He told a meeting that the city government’s Agriculture Department had been visiting markets to check the quality of fertiliser and pesticide. He directed the agriculture EDO to prepare a report about those who had been called by court on account of adulteration of fertiliser and pesticide.

Separately, the DCO told a meeting of the District Review Committee that teachers’ absence from public schools should be checked.

Usman directed the education EDO to take action against the teachers frequently absent from schools.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 29^th, 2015.