January 9, 2003	Thursday	Ziqa’ad 5, 1423

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SUKKUR, Jan 8: Hesco has taken up an improvement plan, costing Rs250 million, to rehabilitate power transformers in over 50 localities.

Work would be carried out through 55 separate schemes.

The executive engineer, Hesco, Sukkur Circle, Shaukat Memon, said on Wednesday that a team of experts had surveyed various city localities for over a month in this regard.

He said that the plan had been approved by the director, P&E, Hesco, Hyderabad, on a priority basis.

He said that six transformers would be installed in Nusrat Colony No3, because of the extraordinary congestion in that area.

He expressed the hope that the rehabilitation programme would benefit both the consumers as well as the Hesco staff during the peak summer period.

He said that special care had also been taken to address the problems of consumers in the city’s industrial area and four schemes would be completed in this regard at a cost of Rs5.55 million to shift power load of 11KV feeder from the city’s grid station to the SITE’s grid station.

He said that six similar schemes, worth Rs2.29 million, would be carried out in the downtown area of the Sukkur city for shifting the load from the 11KV feeder at the Military Road from the City grid station to the SITE grid station besides bifurcating the 11KV ADC Feeder and rehabilitation of the 11KV Golimar Feeder.

he said that work was already in progress on major schemes, while approval was being sought for other schemes.

He expressed the hope that the work on all the schemes would be completed by June, 2003.

DEMO: Khoso tribesmen on Wednesday staged a demonstration against the failure of the police to recover the Nazim of the Daur union council, Ali Ahmed Khoso.

The protesters, who also set tyres on fire, were led by the Nazim of the Thul union council, Haji Mohammad Yousuf Khoso.

They also pelted stones on the passing vehicles causing disruption of traffic for quite some time.

The Nazim of the Daur union council, Ali Ahmed Khoso, had been kidnapped by outlaws over 20 days ago.

SCHOLARSHIPS: The Sindh Education Department has released the first installment of Rs1,729,200 for distribution of scholarships to schoolgirls of Class VI, VII, and VIII whose attendance was 22 days on an average per month in their respective schools in Sukkur district.

They will be provided scholarships for the months of August, September, and October 2002 at the rate of Rs100 per student per month.

The executive district officer (Education), Sukkur, Prof Rafia Pathan, has said that a workshop was held which was attended by 52 headmistresses and cheques worth Rs806,300 were handed over to them so as to be distributed among the schoolgirls concerned.