HYDERABAD, May 6: Dadu has for the first time admitted on record that it has utilised Jamshoro’s share in funds, and agreed to hand over records on liabilities and funds to the district, which was part of Dadu and made a separate district in December 2004.

In a meeting chaired by Special Secretary Local Government Mohammad Siddique in Karachi on Thursday to resolve financial and other issues between Jamshoro and Dadu, the district coordination officer of Dadu admitted that Dadu had utilised Rs124 million of Jamshoro’s share in funds.

The amount might be provided by finance ministry, he said making a promise to hand over documents on liabilities and other assets to EDO finance Jamshoro.

Jamshoro had been urging Dadu to hand it over details on assets, liabilities, properties

and funds as per share fixed

at 34.5 per cent after the

Dadu district was divided under directives of Sindh chief minister ahead of local bodies elections.

The newly-born district approached the provincial local government department after it saw no sign Dadu was ready to share details it required.

The district created on Dec 14, 2004 had no records on funds, liabilities, vehicles, movable and immovable properties. Dadu did not even communicate to the district its closing balance of non-lapsable account-4, which according to some reports had Rs356 million at the time of Dadu’s bifurcation.

Jamshoro’s share in the amount came around Rs124 million as per formula fixed at 34.5 per cent, but Dadu utilised it on its development projects without admitting it officially.