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THATTA, May 6: A joint action committee of 14 NGOs and social welfare organizations in Thatta have called upon the district government to impose ban on the working of non-local NGOs in the district, allegedly involved in usurping funds entrusted to them for general welfare.
The district NGOs Action Committee comprising representatives from the Aurat Foundation, Makli Naujawan Welfare Association, Kainat Welfare Organization, Shah Latif Bhittai Welfare Association, Sujag Aurat Welfare Association, and others have suggested to adopt a resolution against the non-local NGOs in the district council session scheduled to be held next week.
They demanded that a ban be imposed on the working of non-local NGOs in the district.
The Action Committee in its letter addressed to the district Nazim has claimed that a number of practically non-existent and non-local NGOs were busy in fleecing the sponsors in the name of social work and minting money by using the name of the general public of the district.
PPP: A general body meeting of the PPP, Thatta district, held here on Tuesday has expressed resentment over the atrocities unleashed by the police on party activists.
DCO: An inquiry has been conducted by the DCO, Thatta, on the approval of a fictitious G. P. Fund bill worth Rs308,005 from the district treasury office by the clerks of the education department in connivance with the DDO (Drawing and Disbursement Officer) in Jati Taluka here on Tuesday.
Shams Jafrani, the principal of Higher Secondary School Coastal Town, Jati, had detected the fictitious bill and reported the matter to the officials concerned of the education department as well as the NAB, Anti-Corruption Establishment, the district Nazim and DCO stating that his school clerk, Mansoor Khwaja, in connivance with a clerk of the DEO (Secondary) office, Thatta, through chicanery entries on a Rs30,000 slip of G. P. Fund, prepared a bill of Rs308,055 and got it passed from the treasury office after getting it signed from the DDO, Ali Muhammad Turk. When the cheque was finally submitted before the principal for signature, he detected the fraud.
