LARKANA, Aug 9: The Larkana radio station which was upgraded in January is yet to be made operational, sources told this correspondent on Sunday.
The work of setting up four new studios at the radio station, adjacent to the FM Radio Station and the High Power Transmitter near the Chuhaprur village on the Naudero Road, was completed at a cost of Rs98.5 million.
The work on upgrading the radio station started in April 1997 but was suspended for some time the same year. The Benazir Bhutto government had sanctioned a 1000-kilowatt power transmitter for Larkana but it was later shifted and installed in Rawalpindi, the sources said.
In absence of recording facilities, no drama, music or news programmes could be started from the Larkana station. It was proposed two months back to start news bulletins from Larkana but nothing practical has been done in this regard.
Social welfare and political organizations have called upon the Ministry of Information for making the radio station functional.
BISE: The controller of examinations of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Larkana, has refuted charges levelled against him by the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association.
In a press release issued here on Sunday, controller Prof Rabnawaz Tunio said assessment of Urdu Salees papers was being done in accordance with an order of the Sindh governor's secretariat, dated Oct 13, 2003.
He said the committee of chairmen of Sindh boards at a meeting held on Sept 20, 2003, had decided that teachers having master's degree in Urdu would prepare and check Urdu Salees papers. The controller of examinations said senior college teachers and subject specialists had prepared the papers and now they were assessing them.
