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HYDERABAD, April 6: Sindh health services director-general Dr Hadi Bux Jatoi has suspended 63 employees of the health department and issued them show-cause notices for remaining absent from duty during the last anti-polio campaign.
The action was taken on a report of the in-charge the polio cell of the directorate general’s office.
Twenty-three of the suspended employees belonged to the Umerkot district, 12 belonged to Shikarpur, 10 belonged to Tando Mohammad Khan, eight belonged to Thatta, six belonged to Mirpurkhas, three belonged to Tando Allahyar and belonged to the Tharparkar district.
BLACK DAY: On a call of the Sindh Employees Alliance, a black day was observed in educational institutions and offices here on Thursday.
A press release of the alliance claimed that over 300,000 teachers and other government employees wore black armbands during performance of their duties.
They were protesting against the proposed ban on teachers’ associations.
Security plan: The district peace committee has chalked out a security plan to celebrate Eid Milad-un-Nabi in a peaceful manner.
The plan was prepared at a meeting held at the district nazim’s secretariat on Wednesday.
District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil, who presided over the meeting, said that in addition to monitoring by the peace committee at the district level, four sub-committees, headed by taluka nazims concerned, had been constituted for each taluka to facilitate religious organizations and individuals in celebrating Eid Milad-un-Nabi.
He said the committees would maintain cleanliness, especially on routes of processions and at venues of meetings, fill ditches and remove encroachments on roads.
He said the district government had made arrangements for uninterrupted supply of electricity and water and disposal of sewage.
The nazim said that keeping in view the advent of Rabiul Awal, he had stopped ongoing digging works of T&T contractors for their development projects to ensure clearance of routes of processions.
