Contractors asked to ensure safety of miners.

GHALANAI -- The administration has asked the minerals and mines contractors here in Mohmand tribal district to ensure safety of workers during mining activities.

The directives were issued in a meeting held at Jirga Hall here on Tuesday. Assistant commissioner, Upper Mohmand, Hamid Iqbal, assistant commissioner, Baizai, Abdul Wahab, assistant director mines and minerals department and a number of contractors attended the meeting.

The ACs said that Pakistan Red Crescent Society, Mohmand chapter, had planned first aid trainings for the safety of mines contractors and workers in different areas of the district.

Mr Wahab said that he visited various mines in Baizai subdivision and had found the safety measures for the workers inadequate.

He said that the main Peshawar-Bajaur expressway had been damaged due overloading of marble in trucks, which would not be allowed in future.

Mr Iqbal asked the contractors to ensure availability of first aid kits in their respective mines as a safety measure.

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