HYDERABAD, Oct 28: The entry test for admission to bachelor’s degree programmes at the University of Sindh will be held on Oct 30 at the university’s Allama I. I. Kazi campus.

The university on Friday finalized arrangements for the test for admission to 45 disciplines.

To review arrangements for different sections, a meeting of deans of faculties, heads of institutes and departments and conveners of various committees was held at the auditorium of the Institute of Arts and Design.

Vice-chancellor Mazharul Haq Siddiqui presided over the meeting.

The dean, faculty of sciences, and coordinator of the test said that 900 faculty members and other university staff would perform duties during the test.

The in-charge, transport, said that for 8,000 candidates, 125 point buses would ply from different routes of Hyderabad to Jamshoro – 30 buses from Latifabad, 20 from Qasimabad and 75 from old campus.

MQM: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s Hyderabad chapter on Thursday night sent 35 activists to earthquake-hit areas along with relief goods worth Rs25 million.

This was said by MQM zonal in-charge Siraj Rajput at the Khidmat-i-Khalq Foundation office here on Thursday night.

He said that more workers would proceed to Islamabad after two days to take part in the relief work. He said that the pace of relief work was being accelerated under instructions from party chief Altaf Hussain. He said that so far relief goods of Rs150 million had been despatched to the area only from Hyderabad.

He said that MQM volunteers would report at the central relief camp of the party in Muzaffarabad from where they would take relief goods to the mountainous area.

Mr Rajput said that the MQM had established a tent village in the affected area and added that the party’s Hyderabad chapter had placed order for 2,000 more tents to establish more tent villages.

MPA Naeem Ishtiaq, who had just returned from the affected area, said assessment of losses reported in the media were nowhere near to the actual losses. He claimed that there were places where no one else but MQM workers had reached with relief goods.