DERA GHAZI KHAN: Candidates eying engineering career have appealed to the authorities of two premier engineering universities to change their entrance test dates.

The University of Engineering and Technology (UET) of Lahore, and the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) of Islamabad have scheduled their entrance tests for July 17.

The situation has put the candidates in a dilemma over which test to drop.

Candidates for engineering education Rashid, Qasim, Nadeem, Kareem Bakhsh, Sharjeel and Tanzeel said there was a cutthroat competition among thousands of candidates to secure a seat in any engineering university and the clash of dates would diminish their chance.

FLOOD ARRANGEMENTS: The district government has initiated arrangements to cope with the likely floods.

District Coordination Officer (DCO) Nadeem Rehman has made vigilance and monitoring teams under the supervision of assistant commissioners to mark the areas likely to be hit by flooding.

District Police Officer retired Capt Atta Mohammed directed police officials deployed at the 24 riverine posts of Punjab police to evacuate the residents of riverside areas.

Irrigation Department Sub-Divisional Officer Azeem Baloch told Dawn that they had built seven dispersed structures and 12 canal or off take channels on Kaura hill torrent to channelise 6,184 cusec violent water and it would irrigate 42,773 acres. Similarly, four dispersed structure and six off take channels or canals on Wahowa hill torrent had been constructed to irrigate 65,000 acres with 87,000 cusec water.

Also, five main structures and as many canals had been constructed to channelised the 139,000 cusec water of Sanghar hill torrent to irrigate 63,000 acres.

He said structures on Sori Lund would be completed in 2017 to channelise 97,000 cusec water to irrigate 38,000 acres while flood carrier channels of Sori Lund had been accomplished.

Work on Wadore hill torrent’s Chhabary branch has been completed where from 11 canals or off take channels will irrigate 32,000 acres. It will also save the Dera Ghazi Khan city from hill torrents.

Rajanpur DCO Chaudhry Zahoor Hussain Gujar with MPA Atif Mazari visited sensitive areas to take the stock of flood arrangements.

Published in Dawn, July 13th, 2016