KARACHI: Probe into privatization of institute ordered
KARACHI, April 8: Sindh Minister for Planning and Development, Syed Shoaib Ahmed Bukhari, has ordered a probe into the transfer of the Saifee Eide Zahabi Institute of Technology to a private trust.
In a communication addressed to the additional chief secretary (development), the minister pointed out he had come to know that a memorandum of understanding had been signed between the Sindh education department and the Saifee Golden Jubilee regarding handing over/ taking over of the institute.
He pointed out that the Sindh government had spent a huge amount on the scheme. The Asian Development Bank, too, had spent funds on the scheme vide ADP No. 89 and 189 respectively.
He said it was not understandable that a scheme included in the ADP and funded by the ADB can it be transferred to a trust at a time when the Sindh Government and the Asian Development Bank have already spent huge amounts on it.
Mr Bukhari maintained that as the substance emerges to be utterly smeared, he would like to order a thorough probe by the planning and development department and its outcome be submitted to him at the earliest.
TRAUMA CENTRE: The minister has also questioned the privatization of a trauma centre in Gulzar-i-Hijri by the previous government against the interests of citizens and sought a report from the department concerned.
In a letter to the additional chief secretary, Ghulam Sarwar Khero, the minister asked him to submit a detailed report about the expenditure on the year-wise expenditure on the scheme and when it was approved and launched why it was auctioned and on whose proposal.—APP/PPI
