HYDERABAD, Nov 5: The Mehran University of Engineering and Technology on Sunday conducted a test for admission to various disciplines for the 2006-07 academic year.
More than 4,800 boy and girl students appeared in the test.
University sources said a test committee headed by Professor Soomar Khatri conducted the test for admission to the first year engineering, architecture, planning art and design and city and regional planning (7th batch) in 16 disciplines.
The test was held at the Public School Hyderabad in well-disciplined and peaceful manner in two shifts. About 15 committees comprising 200 teachers, officers and other staff supervised the arrangements.
Vice-Chancellor Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan Rajput along with members of the vigilance committee, Hyderabad DCO Mohammad Hussain Syed, Registrar Dr Mohammad Aslam Uquaili and senior professors were present during the test.
Dr Rajput said that the result of the test and merit list would be displayed at university notice boards and university website www.muet.edu.pk on Nov 7.
He said that interviews of successful candidates would be held on the district basis from November 16 to November 20 at the Mehran university Jamshoro.
SCA: The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture has condemned an inordinate delay in the start of crushing season of sugarcane.
Speaking at a meeting held here on Sunday, leaders said that cane growers were ready to supply the crop to mills but they were lying closed despite the government orders.
The senior vice-president of the chamber, Mir Murad Ali Khan, presided over the meeting.
Te meeting appealed to the government to direct sugar mills to start crushing without any further delay.
It said that the sowing of wheat was about to start but there was an acute shortage of DAP and potash fertilisers.
It urged the government to show its existence and ensure the availability of fertilisers in the market.
The meeting said that one year back, the agriculture secretary had announced that farmers were at liberty to install tube-wells at their lands at half the price while 50 per cent would be paid by the government.
It regretted that many farmers had deposited Rs10,000 for the installation of tube-wells but even after the lapse of one year, these had not been installed.
It demanded that the government should implement its own announcement in this regard.
