THATTA, April 2: Nine staff members of the Technical Training Centre, Makli, recorded their statements and were cross-examined by the DDO revenue-cum-inquiry officer, Hadi Bux Kalhoro, at the DCO office on Tuesday regarding a clash between them.

Fayaz Khwaja, chief instructor mechanics, Khursheed Ahmed, senior instructor auto-mechanics, and Mohammad Bux Khushik, a workshop attendant, were picked up by the Makli police two days back following a report lodged against them by the principal, Technical Training Centre, Pyar Ali Khaskheli.

However, the accused were released due to the intervention of the Taluka Nazim, Thatta, Ada Mohammad, followed by an inquiry.

The Technical Training Centre, which was established in 1986 under the directorate of Manpower and Training, Sindh, failed to impart technical education ever since it was set up several years ago.

Since the last two years, the enrolment has not been more than one student and the institution has gained notoriety for being a single-student academy.

Some weeks ago, the district Nazim, Syed Shafqat Hussain Shirazi, and the DCO, Usman Panhwar, visited the centre and found the principal and other staff members absent. The matter was reported to higher authorities.

The staff had sent a telegram to the director, Manpower, who assigned the deputy director, Amanullah Abbasi, to conduct a departmental inquiry.