ISLAMABAD: On the direction of the Mayor of Islamabad and the Chairman CDA, Sheikh Ansar Aziz, the Member Administration, CDA, Suleman Khan Warraich, has issued a show cause notice to the officers for not verifying their academic degrees. “Officers who have not verified the degrees, have been given a three-day time for verification and further submission to the Administration Wing, otherwise their salaries will not only be stopped but departmental action will also be taken against them”. Sheikh Ansear Aziz has taken serious notice of the officers who have not yet verified their academic degrees and directed the Administration Wing for taking stern action against such officers. It is pertinent to mention here that the matter of the degrees’ verification remained unimplemented for the last three years, while the Cabinet Division and the Supreme Court of Pakistan had already directed all the government institutions on the verification of academic degrees and certificates. However, despite several reminders, the officers have not yet verified their educational degrees and certificates. The purpose of verification of degrees is to maintain merit and good governance in the institution. RDA seals seven illegal properties: The Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) conducted an operation against illegal land use and sealed seven properties including six illegal shops and one chemical factory in the residential areas of Abid Homes at Adyala Road, Mouza Kalyal, Rawalpindi. The RDA’s Building Control is continuously conducting operations against illegal and unauthorised shops, building constructions, and encroachments within the controlled area of the RDA in Rawalpindi. TheMetropolitan Planning and Traffic Engineering (MP&TE) Directorate, the Building Control’s staff including Superintendent Nadeem Jamal, and four Building inspectors: Muhammad Waqas, Arslan Shaukat, Shafiqur Rahman, Fahad Ali Bhatti and two building surveyors, on Thursday, with the assistance of the Rawalpindi Police carried out an operation at Abid Homes Rawalpindi. Protest against sealing of primary school: Students and their parents have voiced a strong protest against the sealing of the Primary School at Friends Colony by the Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB). Two primary schools are functioning under the “Baitul Mal” (Public treasury) at Khyaban-e-Sir Syed and Friends Colony. The building department of the RCB has sealed the primary school located at Friends Colony. The “Baitul Mall” authorities have started searching for a new building for this school. The parents of the students said that they were from the poor strata of the society and sealing the school by the RCB and shifting it to a remote locality was an act against poor people. The Managing Director “The Baitul Mal” and the station commander should take notice of this unjust step, they demanded. The building department of the RCB said that the school was set up without the permission of the RCB therefore it had been sealed.