HYDERABAD: Arrangements completed for nazim polls: Four polling stations set up in Hyderabad
Bureau Report
HYDERABAD, Oct 5: Four polling stations, one for each of the four talukas, have been established for the final phase of local body elections 2005, where 673 elected voters will cast their votes for district nazim, taluka nazims and reserved seats for district/talukas of peasants, workers, women and minority in Hyderabad district.
The polling station for the Hyderabad city taluka has been established at the Government Girls High School, near the Circular Building, Risala Road, where 179 male and 80 female voters would exercise their right of vote. The polling station for the Latifabad taluka has been established at the Public School, Latifabad, where 152 male and 67 male voters would cast their votes.
Similarly, The Government Mehran Girls High School, Qasimabad, phase-II, has been declared as polling station for the Qasimabad taluka, where 36 male and 16 female voters would cast their votes, and the polling station for the Hyderabad taluka rural has been arranged at the Local Government Rural Academy, Tandojam, to facilitate 99 male and 44 female voters to cast their votes in the third and final phase of local body elections 2005.
Meanwhile, the caretaker district government/district coordination officer of Hyderabad has declared holiday on October 6, in the educational institutions/offices of Hyderabad district where polling stations have been set up for the third phase of local government election.
COURT TIMINGS: The Registrar of the Sindh High Court, Karachi, has notified the new office timings for the month of Ramazan for Karachi, its bench at Sukkur and Circuit Courts at Hyderabad and Larkana.
According to schedule, the court timings from Monday to Thursday will be from 8.15am to 1pm with an interval from 10.30am to 11am and the chamber work from 1pm to 1.30pm while on Friday, the court timings will be from 8am to 11.30am. Saturday will be judgment-writing day, as already notified.
Similarly, the subordinate courts will function from 8am to 1.30pm from Monday to Saturday and on Friday from 8am to 12:30pm during the month of Ramazan, he said.
INAUGURATION: Hyderabad DCO Mohammad Hussain Syed has said that an amount of Rs9.8 million has been allocated to renovate and rehabilitate A-Block of the Shahbaz Building to provide better office accommodation to officers with better working environment.
This he said while inaugurating renovation work of the Shahbaz Hall at A-Block, Shahbaz Building, Hyderabad, on Wednesday.
The DCO said that better working environment was essential to ensure good deliveries to the people.
He directed the officials concerned to complete the renovation and rehabilitation work by the end of this year.
He also directed for qualitative work and announced that henceforth all the meetings of VVIPs would be conducted at the Shahbaz Hall, Hyderabad.
