KARACHI, July 4: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has once again expressed its reservations on reports of placement of officials in Sindh Middle School Project (MSP) who were earlier expelled from the project on charges of embezzlement of Rs40 million.

The ADB is providing a grant amounting to 52 per cent of the project to the Sindh Education Department for the establishment of schools, training of teachers and scholarships and stipends to students and teachers from rural areas of the province.

In a letter to the Sindh Education Department, highups of the ADB in Islamabad have opposed any changes in the team of the project without consultations with the bank’s regional office.

They have also asked the Sindh Education Department to clarify the reports suggesting that a former project director and a manager of the MSP, Manzoor Hashmi and Allah Bachio Unar, are being reappointed in the project who were separated from the project on charges of fraud in 1994-95.—PPI