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LARKANA: The Sindh Minister for Law, Ayaz Soomro, has hinted at introducing a bill in Sindh Assembly soon for adoption of Ajrak as part of uniform in girls’ schools in the province.
Talking to journalists after inaugurating a computer centre in the central prison here on Thursday, he said introduction of Ajrak as ‘scarf’ in school uniform would be a great service to promote Sindhi culture.
He appreciated the efforts of Deputy Commissioner of Larkana Abdul Aleem Lashari who took lead in it by distributing Ajrak among 3,200 girls’ students in different high schools on 21 Jan.
He said Larkana jail was the second prison facility after Karachi in the province where computer centre had been established, adding that such centres would be opened in all district jails in Sindh to make prisoners computer literate, he said.
He said weapons of Rs530 million would be purchased for jails and very shortly 300 policemen would be posted in different jails.
He said close circuit cameras would be installed in the jails.
The present government had opened public call offices inside jails to facilitate prisoners to talk to their relatives.
The minister handed over five computers to the jail administration to start imparting computer training.
The minister later inaugurated an intensive care unit with ventilator facility recently established in Chandka Medical College Hospital (teaching block) and said that within 10 days Rs10 would be released for the ICU. The government was committed to provide best medical facilities to CMCH which caters to the needs of Larkana division and parts of Punjab and Balochistan, he said.
He said Sindh had collected Rs11.5 billion as sales tax within six months after the National Finance Commission award and disclosed that Sindh had previously been receiving only Rs40 million to Rs60 million. He claimed absorbing more than 100,000 educated youth in services.
Speaking on the occasion, Deputy Commissioner of Larkana Abdul Aleem Lashari said from now on poor patients would be financially assisted through recently established the Patients Welfare Fund by the Sindh government.
