HYDERABAD, April 4: Ten councillors of the union council No.12 city taluka Hyderabad and some social workers staged a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Thursday.

They were protesting against the auction of old Bakra Mandi amenity plot reserved for degree girls college.

Talking to newsmen councillors Umer Daraz, Malik Yasin Ghori, and others said that the plot reserved for the girls college had been auctioned although the Zila Nazim, Dr. Makhdoom Rafiquzzaman, and city Nazim, Haji Moin Shaikh, had assured that the foundation stone of the college would be laid within one and a half month.

They said that there was no girls college for a population of one million people and added that this college would cater to the needs of the female students of 13 union councils.

They further said that in the absence of girls college the female students of the area could not go for higher education because their parents could not afford the transport fares.

They said that the auction of the plot was a conspiracy to deprive the city girls of their right to higher education.

They recalled that the rulers had earlier thrown the proposal of a city university into cold storage and now the auction of an amenity plot, reserved for a girls college, had created misgivings in the minds of the people.

The councillors demanded of the governor of Sindh to cancel the auction of the plot and added that he had not been correctly informed about the true situation.

They also demanded a stern action against the officials who had kept the Governor in the dark.

SUGAR MILL WORKERS: About one dozen office bearers of the Sindh Sugar Mills Trade Unions Federation staged a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Thursday to protest against the large scale retrenchment of workers by the Habib Sugar Mills, Nawab-shah, Shah Murad Sugar Mills, Jhoke Sharif, Al-Noor Sugar Mills, Moro, and Sakrand Sugar Mills.